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

I wonder at a man who loses hope of salvation when the door of repentance is open for him.

Man comes from a drop of semen and leaves as a piece of dust. He doesn't know when he came and he doesn't know when he's leaving, yet he walks on the earth thinking he knows everything.

To maintain nice relation with the people is half of intelligence, nice questioning is half of knowledge, and nice domestic arrangements is half of the management of livelihood.

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.

Know thyself, and thou shalt know God.

The vision of the eye is limited; the vision of the heart transcends all barriers of time and space.