Only the sincere one (mukhlis) knows hypocrisy (riya).

Manhood is based upon four pillars: good character, generosity, humility, and devotion.

Whoever gossips for you will also gossip against you.

The students of knowledge do not succeed except for a few.

The world is but a moment, so make it a moment of obedience.

Your nafs, if you don't keep it busy with the truth it will keep you busy with falsehood.

Seek understanding before you lead. When you lead, then there is no way to seek understanding.

You say that you are just a body, but inside of you is something greater than the Universe.

How strange! You seek guidance, yet you do not tread its path, surely a boat does not sail on land.

To be able to thank Allah for a blessing is a blessing within itself.

The one who admonishes his brother secretly, he has advised sincerely and has honored him. If he does it outwardly (among others) then he has dishonored and shamed him.

Knowledge is not what is memorised. Knowledge is what benefits.

The most precious things are three: To be generous despite your poverty, to be pious and God-fearing when not watched, and to say a word of truth before someone of power.

The wise person is the one whose mind controls him from every disgrace.

Do not speak about things that do not concern you, for indeed, every time that you speak a word, it takes control of you and you do not have any control over it!

When my heart was hardened, and my courses constrained; I made my hope a stairway to Your forgiveness. My sins burdened me heavily, but when I measured it by Your forgiveness, Lord, Your forgiveness was the greater.

If a person were wise, his concern over his own sins would distract him from seeing the faults of others.

Time is like a sword, cut it before it cuts you.

Be hard on yourself, easy on others.

Increase in worship before your responsibilities increase. Then you won't have time to worship as much.

The dua made at tahajjud is like an arrow which does not miss its target.