Envy is the desire for someone who has a blessing to be deprived of it, whether it is a religious or worldly blessing.

Righteous action is the doing of good i.e. the doing of righteous deeds, and righteous deeds are those which Allah has ordered us to do.

The world is a vehicle for you. If you drive it, it will deliver you to your destination. If it drives you, you will be destroyed.

Behave well in your private life and Allah will make your public life excellent.

You are living in a time in which desires are controlled by the truth. However, there will come a time in which the truth will be molded by desires. We seek refuge with Allah from that time.

He will also grant you the other favour that you desire: help from Allah and a victory that will come soon. Give glad tidings of this to the believers.

... Life of this world is only the enjoyment of deception.

Ego is a veil between the humans and Allah.

Whoever desires to purify his heart, then let him prefer Allah to his desires.

Whoever lacks patience and allows his desires (hawa) to lead his mind has then made the follower be followed and the led a leader.

I have believed in Allah and His Messenger (saw).

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

If you want to know the true value of this world, look at the value and character of those people who have it (the people who are rich and prosperous).

Do not sit idle, for indeed death is seeking you.

Be firm and upright upon the commands of Allah, work to His obedience and keep away from His disobedience.

Uqbah bin Amr Al-Ansari narrated that the messenger of Allah (saw) said, Among the words people obtained from the First Prophecy are: If you feel no shame, then do as you wish.

And this worldly life is not but diversion and amusement. And indeed, the home of the Hereafter - that is the [eternal] life, if only they knew.

Never do the love of song and the love of Quran come together in a person's heart except that one expels the other.

The messenger of Allah, said, None of you [truely] believes until his inclination is accordance with what I have brought.

The Messenger of Allah (saw) said: The likeness of the heart is that of a feather blown by the wind in the desert.

Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.

To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.

And if you ask about its (heaven's) ground and its soil, then it is of musk and saffron.

The key to all good is longing for the hereafter and the key to all evil is love of this world and extended hopes.

There are four types of oceans; passion is the ocean of sins, the nafs is the ocean of desires, death is the ocean of lives, and the grave is the ocean of regrets.

If Allah wants good for His servant He gives him the understanding of the deen, reduces his attachment to the dunya, and grants him awareness of his faults.

Glad tidings to the one whose intellect is his master and whose desire is his slave. And woe to the one whose desire is his master and whose intellect is his slave.

Whoever thinks of the greatness of Allah will never be at ease in committing wrong actions.

Look to one who is lower than you, and do not look to one who is above you. For indeed that is more worthy (so that you will) not belittle Allah's favours upon you.

Two hungry wolves let loose among sheep are not more harmful then a person craving after wealth and status is to his Deen.

From following desires comes desire for this world, and from desire of this world comes love of wealth and status, and from love of wealth and status comes making lawful that which is forbidden.

The motive for Islam is strongest in controlling and defeating the whims and desires.

If a man's patience is stronger than his whims and desires, then he is like an angel, but if his whims and desires are stronger than his patience, then he is like a devil. If his desire for food, drink and sex is stronger than his patience, then he is no better than an animal.

Run away from greatness, and greatness will follow you.

Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.