A man may be as straight as an arrow, but even then he will have some critics.
Let not your love become attachment, nor your hate become destruction.
Do not accept gifts; [because] that is bribery.
There are four types of oceans. Passions are the ocean of sins, the self (nafs) is the ocean of lust, death is the ocean of life, and the grave is the ocean of distress
If patience and gratitude had been she camels, it would have mattered little on which I rode.
Be dignified, honest and truthful.