“My sins seemed very great to me but when I compared them to Your forgiveness I found Your forgiveness to be greater”

The one who admonishes his brother secretly, he has advised sincerely and has honored him.

Whenever I face an opponent in debate I silently pray – O Lord, help him so that truth may flow from his heart and on his tongue, and so that if truth is on my side.

How strange! You seek guidance, yet you do not tread its path, surely a boat does not sail on land.

My heart is at ease knowing that what was meant for me will never miss me, and that what misses me was never meant for me.

Never do I argue with a man with a desire to hear him say what is wrong, or to expose him and win victory over him.

When my heart became constricted and my paths became narrow I took my hope in Your pardon and forgiveness as an opening and an escape

My sin burdened me heavily. But when I measured it against Your Grace,

O Lord, Your forgiveness came out greater.

To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him.

All humans are dead except those who have knowledge; and all those who have knowledge are asleep, except those who do good deeds.

Knowledge is not what is memorised. Knowledge is what benefits.

To be able to thank Allah for a blessing is a blessing within itself.

You say that you are just a body, but inside of you is something greater than the Universe.

I complained to Waki’ about the weakness of my memorisation, So he instructed me to abandon disobedience;

He informed me that knowledge is a light, And the light of Allah is not given to a sinner.

Wealth remains behind on earth while ibadaah accompanies you into the grave.

There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

It’s silly to say that with a journalist, but sometimes there is not a truth to be found.

America wasn’t founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.

I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.

I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people.