“People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for reckoning the number of idle words they speak.”

In God, there is no sorrow or suffering or affliction. If you want to be free of all affliction and suffering, hold fast to God, and turn wholly to Him, and to no one else. Indeed, all your suffering comes from this: that you do not turn toward God and no one else.

Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.

Half of disbelief in Allah in the world is caused by people who make religion look ugly due to their bad conduct and ignorance.

The mere physical man is like the ant crawling on the paper, who observes black lettering and attributes its production to the pen and nothing more.

He who does not arrive at the Intuition of these Truths by means of Ecstasy knows only the name of Inspiration.

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.

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.

We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation.

A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.

If you live in harmony with nature you will never be poor; if you live according what others think, you will never be rich.

This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.