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“السعادة كلها في أن يملك الرجل نفسه، والشقاوة كلها في أن تملكه نفسهAll of a man’s happiness is in his being the master of his ego, while all his suffering is in his ego being his master.”

“A kind word can be uttered in a few seconds, yet its effects last a lifetime.”

“Whoever attains dominion over his ego’s desires in his youth, God will grant him dominion in his old age, as happened to Yusuf, peace be upon him.”

“One day your heart will take you to your Lover. One day your soul will carry you to the Beloved. Don’t get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure.”

“When I need God most, He comes to me the fastest and closest. When I need the creation most, they run from me the fastest and farthest.”

“If you lose hope every time you mess up, it means your hope was in your own actions, instead of Allah.”

“I like drinking coffee alone and reading alone. I like riding the bus alone and walking home alone. It gives me time to think and set my mind free. I like eating alone and listening to music alone. But when I see a mother with her child, a girl with her lover, or a friend laughing with their best friend, I realize that even though I like being alone, I don’t fancy being lonely.”

“His (Prophet’s) speech was sweet, comprehensive, and he had the most beautiful way with words. His words captured the hearts and souls. Even his enemies had to admit to this quality.”

A good Muslim is not one who is strictest in his judgment, but who is most patient in listening.

Superficial knowledge breeds arrogance; true knowledge induces humility.

Do not let this trial go to waste by you dwelling over it, but overcome it by getting closer to Allah by learning His deen and worshiping him.

The secret to happiness is to never make it dependent on that which can be taken away.

Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.

Of the most beneficial cures is relentlessness in supplication. Its opposite is for the servant to be hasty, so that when the answer is delayed his heart breaks and he gives up supplication.

By Allah I don’t fear for you poverty, but I fear that the world would be abundant for you as it has been for those before you, so you compete for it as they have competed for it, so it destroys you as it has destroyed them.