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

The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction.

He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.

It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.

He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest.

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.

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.

Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.

I am not going to be licked by tragedy, as life is a challenge, and we must carry on and work for the living as well as mourn for the dead.

Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.

The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin lay prostrate in defeat and new life and salvation were given to mankind.

What will I be doing in twenty years’ time? I’ll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?

Fascism did not die with Mussolini, he warned. Hitler is finished, but the seeds spread by his disordered mind have firm root in too many fanatical brains.

I don’t want to die, so sometimes I think it would have been better if I had never been born.

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.