If you see Allah, Mighty and Magnificent, holding back this world from you, frequently trying you with adversity and tribulation, know that you hold a great status with Him. Know that He is dealing with you as He does with His Awliya’ and chosen elite, and is watching over you.

Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.

Man's nature is made up of four elements, which produce in him four attributes, namely, the beastly, the brutal, the satanic, and the divine. In man there is something of the pig, the dog, the devil, and the saint.

If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?

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

People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for reckoning the number of idle words they speak.

You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.