I never dealt with anything stronger against me than my own ego; it was one time with me, and one time against me.

You are in greater need of a little manners than a great deal of knowledge.

Acquire knowledge and teach people. Learn along with it dignity and tranquility and humility for those who teach you and humility for those whom you teach. Do not be tyrannical scholars and thus base your knowledge upon your ignorance.

Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.

In order to be followed as an example, be a brother to your other Muslims. Be a son to the elders, and a father to the younger ones.

They will recite the Quran, but it will not go beyond their throats. The Quran is only beneficial when it reaches the heart and is firmly planted in it.

Goodness lies in the person who doesn't see goodness within himself.

And We have indeed made the Quran easy to understand and remember, then is there any that will remember.

The last advice the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, gave me when I put my foot in the stirrup was that he said, Make your character good for the people, Muadh ibn Jabal!

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

We seek refuge with Allah from starting any action without basing it on knowledge and reason.

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 hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.

Al-Quddus is the one who is above every description which human perception could apprehend, the imagination could grasp, the fancy could reach, the innermost consciousness could pervade and thereby have an understanding of Him, or the reflection could determine.

Without knowledge, action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.