“whoever is gladdened by the prayer in this world will be gladdened by nearness to his Lord in this world and the next. whoever does not find gladness in this world leaves this world a loser.”
“the dunya [world] is worthless to its Lord [Allah], and yet it belongs to Him. so it’s not right that you value it so much, and it’s not even yours!”
“o ye people, you were not created in negligence, nor have you been left on your own. You have a destination where God, Most High, will judge among you and sort you out; ruined indeed and damned is the one whom God, Most High, puts outside His Mercy, "which envelops all things', and outside His Heaven, 'the breadth of which is that of the heavens and the earth'. But safety will be his morrow who fears and reveres God; who barters what is small for what is vast, what is ephemeral for what is eternal, what brings suffering for what brings joy. Do you not see that you are in the ranks of that which perishes and that you will be replaced hereafter by those who shall remain behind? Do you not see that each day you take to the grave a traveller journeying towards God, his term fulfilled, his future hopes cut short, you put him in a place burrowed in the earth, neither smooth nor cushioned—stripped of means, friends departed and a reckoning ahead?'”
“child of Adam, you are in need of your worldly portion and your portion in the hereafter, but you are more in need of the hereafter. if you put your worldly portion first, you shall lose that of the hereafter and threaten your worldly one. but if you put the hereafter first, you will succeed in your worldly portion and put it in its rightful place.”
“whoever denies qadr, then he has nullified his tawheed”
“God has decreed, as a part of destiny which cannot be turned back or repelled, that he who loves something other than God will surely be tormented by it; that one who fears someone other than God will come under his control; that one who involves himself with something to the exclusion of God will find it a source of grief; that one who prefers another to God will not be blessed therein; and that one who tries to please a fellow creature by anything displeasing to God will, without fail, bring God's anger upon himself.”
“it is by being tested that one is honored or humbled.”
“there’s no shorter way to God than that of servitude and no thicker veil than pretension.”
“every breath we take is taking us closer to death. the time we spend in this world is short, the time we are held in our graves is long, and the punishment for following our lowly desires is calamitous.”
“i have never regretted anything as much as my regret over a day on which the sun sets and my life span decreases while my good deeds have not increased.”
“do not let your past carelessness make you lose hope of achieving good, for many people have come back to wakefulness after long sleep.”
“to be able to thank Allah for a blessing is a blessing within itself”
“everything has something staining it, and the stain of sacred knowledge is covetousness.”
“a servant has not been afflicted with a punishment more severe than the hardening of the heart and being distant from Allah.”
“death (mawt) has exposed the worldly life, for it did not leave joy for anyone in it.”
“o son of Adam! You are mortgaged with your deeds, reachable by your death, and presented before your Lord. Therefore, take what is in your hands as stock to what lies ahead of you, for when death comes the certainty arrives”
“o son of Adam! Allah Almighty did not give you the worldly life except as a trial, and since He Created it, He did not keep it away from his believing servants except as a trial.”
“how strange is man! the recording Angels are above his head, his tongue is their pen, his saliva is their ink, and yet, he keeps talking about that which does not concern him.”
“if you want to know your value with your Lord, look to how He is using you and what actions he has kept you busy with.”
“o son of Adam! You will not die before your time, you will not be deprived of your provision, nor will the provision of others be given unto you. Why do you then toil, and for what are you killing yourself?”
“o one who spends the commodity of his lifetime in going against the wishes of his Beloved and distancing himself from Him, there is not among your enemies one who does more harm to you than yourself.”
“the secrets to piety: 1. i understood that my rizq (provision/sustenance decreed by Allah) cannot be taken by anyone, so my heart become content. 2. i understood that no one can do my actions (worship) for me, so I started doing them myself. 3. i understood that Allah is watching me, so I became ashamed to do wrong. 4. i understood that death is waiting for me, so I started to prepare for my meeting with Allah”
“whoever proposed to the world should know that the world would not be satisfied until he gives up all of his din as dowry.”
“o friend, the cloth from which your burial shroud will be cut may have already reached the market and yet you remain unaware.”
“the ship of your lifetime is approaching the coast of the graveyard. what’s the matter with you that you are busy inside the ship trying to acquire goods?”
“premature optimization is the root of all evil.”
“patience is for the heart to not feel anger towards that which is destined and for the mouth to not complain.”