The Need of Choosing a Role-Model: “Remember that every follower has a leader whom he follows and from the effulgence of whose knowledge he takes light. ”
The Sword of Intellect and the Sheath of Forbearance: “Forbearance is a curtain for covering, and wisdom is a sharp sword. Therefore, conceal the weaknesses in your conduct with forbearance and kill your desires with your wisdom.”
Taking Part in Gatherings of Iniquity: “The individual who believes in Allah and also believes in the Last day will not go to a place or gathering in which raybah is taking place.”
The Eventual Outcome of the Pious and Sinners: “Be aware that sins are like unruly horses on whom their riders have been placed and their reins have been let loose so that they would jump with them in Hell. Be aware that God-consciousness is like trained horses on whom the riders have been placed with the reins in their hands, so that they would take the riders to Heaven.”
The Lead of Life: “…and prepare yourselves for death, since it is hovering over you. Be a people who wake up when called, and who know that this world is not their abode, and so have it changed (with the next)…”
Speaking and Silence: “There is no advantage for a scholar to keep quiet about an issue of wisdom just as there is no good in an ignorant or foolish person speaking an unintelligent thing.”
Time: One of the Witnesses on the Day of Judgement: “There is not a day which passes by on the child of Adam- every human being – except that day says to him: ‘I am a new day and I am a witness over you, so then speak goodness within me and do good deeds within me. I will bear witness for you on the Day of Judgement and indeed after today, you will never see me again.’”
Asceticism and Recognizing the World: “The ascetic one in the life of the transient world is one who, the more they become acquainted with the true essence of the material world, they distances themselves away from it more.”
Who is an ascetic (zahid): “The ascetic one, in the transient world, is the person whose fortitude is not over-taken by him coming face to face with the prohibited and who does not let the permissible preoccupy him from thanking God.”
The Source of Corruption: “Indeed the basis of the occurrence of evils are those base desires which are acted upon and the orders of God which are innovated. They those orders which are innovated are against the Book of Allah. People co-operate with each other about them to perform them even though it is against the religion of Allah.
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