Some men, like spaniels, will only fawn the more when repulsed, but will pay little heed to a friendly caress.

The diurnal sun sets at night, but the sun of the heart never disappears.

Allah is in Himself the non-being and the being, the inexistent and the existent. He is at the same time that which we designate by absolute non-being and by absolute being; or by relative non-being and relative being. . . . All these designation come back to God alone, for there is nothing which we can perceive, know, write or say which is not Him.

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

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.

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

Fear that man who fears not God.