People praise you for what they suppose is in you; but you must blame your soul for what you know is in it.

If you do not know the blessings you have when you have them, then Allah will teach you about them by taking them away from you

So long as you are in this world, be not surprised at the existence of sorrows.

The ambition of the spiritual traveller never wants to stop with what it has been shown save that the voices of reality call to him, "what you seek is ahead of you.

If you want a glory that does not vanish, then do not glory in a glory that vanishes

If you make intense supplication and the timing of the answer is delayed, do not despair of it. His reply to you is guaranteed; but in the way He chooses, not the way you choose, and at the moment He desires, not the moment you desire.

Allah was when there was nothing else than Him, and His Throne was upon the water, and He wrote in the Reminder (al-dhikr) all things, and He created the heavens and the earth.