Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.

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.

Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.

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

In the intricate paths of life when difficulties and hardships confront a man, and the darkness of difficulty and suffering becomes long, it is patience only that acts like a light for a Muslim, that keeps him safe from wandering here and there, and saves him from the muddy marsh of disappointment, desperation and frustration.

Men have such a good opinion of themselves, of their mental superiority and intellectual depth; they believe themselves so skilled in discerning the true from the false, the path of safety from those of error, that they should be forbidden as much as possible the perusal of philosophic writings.

Work for your terrestrial life in proportion to your location in it, and work for your afterlife in proportion to your eternity in it.