O my people, I disavow all that you associate [with God]. I orient my face with an exclusive orientation towards Him, who created the heavens and the earth and I am not one of the associators.

Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.

Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all.

By reason of his elegance, he resembles an image painted in a palace, though he is as majestic as the palace itself.

The other world is as to this like the east to the west. We cannot approach the one without turning away from the other.

When God wanted to create the horse, he said to the South Wind, "I want to make a creature of you. Condense." And the Wind condensed.

The pleasure and the love of God for His creatures constitute the original state. His pleasure and love are the means by which He has brought His creatures into existence and are the cause of that bringing into existence. He who knows that he possesses neither being nor act rediscovers himself in that original state of pleasure and divine love.