“Only someone who is sincere recognizes what showing off is.”

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.

But to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and shame him.

The loftiest in status are those who do not know their own status.

Do not vie with others in the accumulation of wealth. Vie with them in Ibadaah.

And the most virtuous of them are those who do not know their own virtue.

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

If I could pass along anything that my mother or my sisters taught me, I feel like my kids would be very well off.

I don’t like people’s table manners. That really puts you off eating food.

I knew it was time to get off of reality TV when someone asked me if I sang as well as acted.

I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that’s OK – the bat had to get Ozzy shots.

You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don’t bite off more than you can chew. It’s a dangerous world.

You gotta keep the ball off the fat part of the bat.

I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

If you go off the road, you’re into somebody’s shop-window or front porch.