Lower your gaze from the world and turn your heart away from it...

Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance.

If a person has ten habits out of which nine are good and one bad, that bad one will destroy the good ones.

Learn Arabic, for it strengthens the intelligence and increases one’s noble conduct (al-murû`ah).

I fear the day when the Kuffar are proud of their falsehood, and the Muslims are shy of their faith.

The criterion of action is that todays work should not be deferred till the following day.

Do not be misled by a person's prayers and fasting. [Instead] look [at their] sincerity and wisdom.