“If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.”

Offen love between two people intensifies not because of beauty or some advantage, but because of sheer spiritual affinity.

If you see Allah, Mighty and Magnificent, holding back this world from you, frequently trying you with adversity and tribulation, know that you hold a great status with Him. Know that He is dealing with you as He does with His Awliya’ and chosen elite, and is watching over you.

Love for God is the farthest reach of all stations, the sun of the highest degrees, and there is no station after that of love, except its fruit and its consequences.

Understand that for every rule which I have mentioned from the Quran, the Devil has one to match it, which he puts beside the proper rule to cause error.

If your busy with yourself now, you will be busy with yourself then. If you are busy with Allah now, you will be with Him then.

He who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world.

You must convince your heart that whatever Allah has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial for you.

Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.

The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.

Do not fix hopes on your health, and do not laugh away life. Remember how they walked and now all their joints lie separately, and the tongue with which they talked lightly is eaten away by the worms.

It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother’s milk.

Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.

Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.

Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.

If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?

A man of bad character punishes his own soul.

The years go by one after the other; time slips past us with out our being aware of it; we grow old like ordinary men and we shall end like them.

It’s not just the end of a chicken leg, it really is – imagine the cartilage of game meat.

Arguments are often like melodramas – they have a predictable beginning, middle, and end.

To one end let us aim our thoughts, and to one end let us aim our souls. Hail, dawn of liberty, behind thee is the redeeming sun.

Terrific. Now to win a larceny trial all we have to do is prove how the universe ends.

All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.

Only the luckless, the petty or the deranged [end] up in court.

In everything we ought to look at the end.