Contemplation for an hour is better than formal worship for sixty years.

No child can repay his father unless he finds him enslaved and then buys him and sets him free.

It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad, and it is better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent, but silence is better than idle words.

The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveler, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.

All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; Learn that every Muslim is a brother to every Muslim and that the Muslims constitute one brotherhood. Nothing shall be legitimate to a Muslim which belongs to a fellow Muslim unless it was given freely and willingly. Do not, therefore, do injustice to yourselves.

You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.

The best jihad is to speak a word of justice to an oppressive ruler.