A man once told Sufyan al-Thawri, We hit our children if they do not pray. Sufyan told him, You should rather [encourage them and] give them glad tidings.

Be people who are constantly reviving their hearts, wearing shabby garments, lights that illuminate the darkness, be unknown to those on earth yet known to the inhabitants of the heavens.

Sell this life for the next and you win both of them. Sell the next life for this and you loose both of them.

We are your guardians in this world's life and in the hereafter, and you shall have therein what your souls desire and you shall have therein what you ask for.

Do not sell your conscience for anything but Jannah.

And it is the month of sabr; and for sabr, the reward is paradise.

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

In this world there is a paradise, whoever does not enter it will not enter the Paradise of the Hereafter.

Abu Said al-Khudri narrated, Rasul Ullah (saw) said: If anyone cares for three daughters, disciplines them, marries them, and does good to them, he will go to Jannah.

Abu Huraira narrated that, Allah's Messenger (saw) said, When Ramadan begins, the gates of Paradise are opened.

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.

The Prophet said, Your actions alone will not save any of you. They asked, Messenger of Allah, not even you? He replied, Not even me, unless Allah were to envelop me in His mercy. Be firm; steadfast and balanced; and journey [to Allah] in the beginning of the day, the end of the day, and a portion of the latter part of the night. Moderation, moderation! Through this will you attain your goal!

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