- A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks.
-Fear God and you will have no cause to fear anyone.
-The word of God is the medicine of the heart.
-The days of life pass away like clouds, so do good while you are alive.
-Of all the follies, the greatest is to love the world.
-Opportunity is swift of flight but slow to return.
-Pride, cowardice and miserliness are bad for me but good for women.
-The most happy is he to whom God has given a good wife.
-He who knows himself knows God.
-Do not soil your conscience for anything but heaven.
-The disease of the heart is worse than the disease of the body.
-To fight against one's desires is the greatest of all fights.
-The strongest amongst you is he who subdues his self.
-Wealth and greed are the root of all evils.
-Riches without faith are the greates poverty.
-A man's worth depends upon the nobility of his aspirations.
-Knowledge enlivens the soul.
-The learned lives, although he dies.
-The sum total of excellence is knowledge.
-To respect the learned is to respect God.
-Generosity hides shortcomings.
-The wealth of a miser is as useless as a pebble.
-Desire is one's most inveterate enemy.
-Patience is the fruit of faith
-Virtue never dies.
-People are asleep as long as they are alive, they are awakened when they die.
-No shelter is safer than piety.
-A man's behaviour is the index of his mind.
-A man's glory from his virtue is greater than the glory of his pedigree.
-Courtesy costs nothing but buys everything.
-Carnal appetities are nets spread by the devil.
-Every arrow does not hit the mark,nor every prayer granted.
-Fear none but your sins.
-A man who praises himself displays his deficiency of intellect.
-Honor your parents and your sons will honor you.
-A man is hid under his tongue.
-Ostentatiousness spoils prayers.
-Clemency graces power.
-Jealousy devours virtue as fire devours fuel.
-Forgiveness is the crown of greatness.
-Do not covet what is undesirable.
-He who trusts the world, the world betrays him.
-When hopes are frustrated despair becomes the way of life.
-A stranger is he who has no friends.
-Guard well your secret.
-He who seeks more than what is necessary indulges in error.
-Waste of time is one's greatest loss.
-Contentment is the treasure which is never exhausted.
-The advise of old men is dearer than the bravery of young men.
-Do not be misled by appearance for these are apt to be deceptive.
-What you do not like for yourself, do not like for others.
-To seek counsel is to go to the fountain of guidance.
-A wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.
-His grief is long whose hope is short.
-Repentance washes away sins.
-Sinning is a disease, repentance is its medicine, and abstinence from it a sure cure.
-Pride impedes progress and mars greatness.
-He who understands humanity seeks solitude.
-Right is the best argument.
-The greatest sin is the sin that the sinner considers to be ordinary.
-Haste is a species of madness.
-Be generous but not extravagant, be frugal but not miserly.
-Live amongst people in such a manner that if you die they weep over you and if you are alive they crave for your company.
-Unfortunate is he who cannot gain a few sincere friends during his life and more unfortunate is the one who has gained them and then lost them (through his deeds).
-Be afraid of a gentleman when he is hungry, and of a mean person when his stomach is full.
-The best kind of wealth is to give up inordinate desires.
-Man is a wonderful creature; he sees through the layers of fat (eyes), hears through a bone (ears) and speaks through a lump of flesh (tongue).
-If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.
-Whoever wants to be a leader should educate himself before educating others. Before preaching to others he should first practice himself. Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals is superior to the man who tries to teach and train others.
-One who rushes madly after inordinate desire, runs the risk of encountering destruction and death.
-If you find that somebody is not grateful for all that you have done for him, then do not get disappointed because often you will find that someone else feels under your obligation though you have done nothing for him and thus your good deeds will be compensated, and Allah will reward you for your goodness.
-Death is near and our mutual company is short.
-In this world, man is a target of death, an easy prey to calamities, here every morsel and every draught is liable to choke one, here one never receives a favour until he loses another instead, here every additional day in one's life is a day reduced from the total span of his existence, when death is the natural outcome of life, how can we expect immortality?
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