“Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.”

Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.

He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.

Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.

Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God.

O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.

He who avoids complaint invites happiness.

If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.

When knowledge is limited – it leads to folly. When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

It is difficult to be patient but to waste the rewards of patience is worse.

Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.

Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest.

Maybe if you didn’t care, you couldn’t be hurt.

The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.

Man is the cruelest animal.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.

It is in a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that leads him to evil ways.

Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.

Being against evil doesn’t make you good.