Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.

He who comes to take the love of God can have no taste for the love of the world.

He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.

He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.

There are five dark matters and five lamps. Love of this world is darkness, and the fear of Allaah is its lamp. Sin is darkness, and its lamp is repentance. The grave is darkness, and its lamp is 'none has the right to be worshipped but Allaah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allaah.' The hereafter is darkness, and its lamp is the good deed. The Siraat is darkness, and its lamp is certainty of faith.

It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.