If there is someone in need whom you wish to help, whether the initiative came from him or from you, do no more than he expects of you, not what you might personally wish to do. If you overstep the mark, you will not deserve thanks, but blame from him and others and you will attract hostility, not friendship.

If you advise someone on the condition that they have to accept it, then you are an oppressor.

Of Love--may God exalt you! -the first part is jesting, and the last part is right earnestness. So majestic are its diverse aspects, they are too subtle to be described their reality can only be apprehended by personal experience. Love is neither disapproved by Religion, nor prohibited by the Law for every heart is in God's hands.

Two kinds of people live a life without care: one kind are extremely worthy of praise, the other kind are extremely worthy of criticism. The first are those who care nothing for the pleasures of the world and the second (i.e. those who are deserving of criticism) care nothing for haya or modesty.

Glad-tidings to he who knows his own faults more than other people know it.

One hour of neglect can undo a year of pious effort.

No one is moved to act, or resolves to speak a single word, who does not hope by means of this action or word to release anxiety from his spirit.

We should think of those who were famous for their good deeds or their bad deeds did their fame raise them one single degree in the sight of Allah. Did it win them a reward that they had not already won by their actions during their life?

There are two things that if you do them you will attain the good of this world and the hereafter [They are] that you bear what you dislike if it is beloved to Allah and you leave what you like if it is disliked by Allah.