A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people

Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see - Egoism, Arrogance, Conceit, Selfishness, Greed, Lust, Intolerance, Anger, Lying, Cheating, Gossiping and Slandering. If you can master and destroy them, then will be ready to fight the enemy you can see.

Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.

There are two kinds of Riya - Showing off-Ostentation ie pure ostentation and adulterated ostention. In pure ostentation "Riya" a man does a good deed only for worldly benefit. In Adulterated ostentation, a man does a good deed with the intention of reaping the benefits of the world as well as of the Hereafter.

Only that which cannot be lost in a shipwreck is yours.

Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.

Each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, since each of them is irreplaceable and once gone, can never be retrieved.