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

Extinction is the beginning of the path: it is traveling to God Most High. Guidance comes afterwards. What I mean by guidance is the guidance of God, as described by the Friend of God, Abraham: "Lo! I am going unto my Lord Who will guide me."

When Allah inspires your tongue to ask, know that He wants to give

Invoking brings the heart closer to the hereafter and keeps the world away from the heart, even though the world is around it. Invoking warns the heedless heart to abandon its pleasures and deceptions.

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

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

Actions are but lifeless forms whose soul is the secret of sincerity in them