“Knowledge is the life of the mind.”

You should not quarrel with your neighbour, for he will remain where he is, but your high handedness will become the talk of the people.

Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.

He who comes to take the love of God can have no taste for the love of the world.

Follow the way of life, which the Holy Prophet has shown you, for verily that is the right path.

Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.

God helps those who fear Him.

Where do you go when you don’t even know where the danger is coming from?

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.

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.

Some say knowledge is power, but that is not true. Character is power.

There is no use if knowledge grows while desires multiply. It makes one a hero in words and a zero in action.

Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.

True knowledge is that which establishes harmony and synthesis between ience on the one hand and spirituality and ethics on the other.

Real education should enable one to utilise the knowledge one has acquired to meet the challenges of life and to make all human beings happy as far as possible.

The essence of religion is the knowledge of God which is eternal life. That and nothing less than that is religion. Everything else is on the surface, is superfluous save for the needs of men.

The end of knowledge is wisdom The end of culture is perfection The end of wisdom is freedom The end of education is character. And character consists of eagerness to renounce one’s selfish greed.

Unless knowledge is transformed into wisdom, and wisdom is expressed in character; education is a wasteful process.