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

If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?

The stain of ink on clothes is the trademark of scholars.

If I were to backbite anyone it would be my parents, for they are most deserving of my good deeds.

Spread your knowledge, but be careful of popularity.

People didn't become ignorant and didn't differ amongst themselves except because they left Arabic and leaned towards the language of Aristotle.

Learn the Arabic language; it will sharpen your wisdom.

The believers were destroyed by their inability in Arabic.

He is to be preferred who has the urge to sin, but does not sin.

Avoidance of sin is lighter than the pain of remorse.

A person will always interpret everything he hears according to the light which dominates his heart.

The most beneficial remedy is that you preoccupy yourself with thoughts of what should concern you and not those that should not concern you.

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

I advise you to mix little with the people, since before when people met they would benefit from each other. But today that has gone.

Knowledge enlivens the soul.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.

If the first inward thought is not warded off, it will generate a desire, then the desire will generate a wish, and the wish will generate an intention, and the intention will generate the action, and the action will result in ruin and divine wrath. So evil must be cut off at its root, which is when it is simply a thought that crosses the mind, from which all the other things follow on.

If a person truly recognizes his worth, then what will he gain from the praise of the people?

The worst of our faults is our interest in other people's faults.

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

My Lord! Bestow wisdom on me, and join me with the righteous.

Know that you cannot love Allah until you love obeying Him!

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

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

Whoever does not hold his tongue cannot understand his deen.

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

Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.

And if all the trees in the earth were pens, and the sea, with seven more seas to help it, (were ink), the words of Allah could not be exhausted. Lo! Allah is Mighty, Wise.

Know that if people are impressed with you, in reality they are impressed with the beauty of Allah�s covering of your sins.

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!

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.

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

The hearts of man pass through two phases: activity and inactivity, so seek your hearts while they are in the state of activity and control them in the phase of inactivity.

A person who acts without knowledge is like someone who travels without a guide, and it is known that a person like this will more likely be destroyed than saved.

Solitude is better than a society of evil people.

The wisest man is he who can account for his actions.