A person of riyaa (showing off) has three characteristics : He is lazy when alone, energetic when with others, and increases in his actions when he is praised while decreasing in them when he is criticized.

Do for this life as if you live forever, do for the afterlife as if you will die tomorrow.

Whoever desires Paradise, proceeds towards goodness; whoever fears Hell, refrains from the impulses of passions; whoever believes firmly in death, detests wordly life; and whoever recognises the worldly life, the trials and tribulations (of life) become slight for him.

The world is darkness; knowledge is light; but knowledge without truth is a mere shadow.

The disease of the heart is worse than the disease of the body.

Dislike in yourself what you dislike in others.

Let me alone, and go in search of someone else.