You must convince your heart that whatever Allah has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial for you.

You must convince your heart that whatever Allah has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial for you.

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

The soul should take care of the body, just as the pilgrim on his way to Makkah takes care of his camel; but if the pilgrim spends his whole time in feeding and adorning his camel, the caravan will leave him behind, and he will perish in the desert.

Whoever passes forty without his virtue overpowering his vice, let him get ready for hellfire. This advice contains enough for people of knowledge.

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

If the first inward thought is not warded off, it will generate a desire, then the desire will generate a wish, and the wish will generate an intention, and the intention will generate the action, and the action will result in ruin and divine wrath. So evil must be cut off at its root, which is when it is simply a thought that crosses the mind, from which all the other things follow on.