Neglect not your time, nor use it haphazardly; on the contrary you should bring yourself to account. Structure your litanies and other practices during each day and night. This is how to bring about the spiritual blessing (baraka) in each period. If each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, Be not like the deceived fools who are joyous because each day their wealth increases while their life grows ever shorter.

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

He who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world.

The mere physical man is like the ant crawling on the paper, who observes black lettering and attributes its production to the pen and nothing more.

To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.

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

If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.