Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride.

Asceticism is not that you should not own anything, but that nothing should own you.

The sin which makes you sad and repentant is more liked by Allah than the good deed which turns you arrogant.

Never make a decision in anger and never make a promise in happiness.

In this world, man is a target of death, an easy prey to calamities, here every morsel and every draught is liable to choke one, here one never receives a favour until he loses another instead, here every additional day in one's life is a day reduced from the total span of his existence, when death is the natural outcome of life, how can we expect immortality.

Do not use the sharpness of your speech on your mother who taught you how to speak.

Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him