“Life is short, time is precious, death near, and the distance to travel great, while the moment of standing before God to account for everything, however insignificant, is daunting and hard.” [Imam al-Haddad]

Know that the hearing and eyesight are two open doors; whatever enters through them reaches the heart. [Two Treatises of Imam al-Haddad]

“The one with real trust is he who sees Allah in the outward forms of causes and effects, doing and choosing everything that those veiled from Him ascribe to them. He thus consigns the matter to Him in charge of the matter, and is well pleased with Him to rely on.” [Mustafa al-‘Arusi ]

“What you love to have with you in the Hereafter you should advance today, and what you hate to have with you, you should abandon today.” [Salman ibn Dinar]

Imam al-Shafi’ in his final sickness said: When my heart was hardened and my courses constrained I made my hope a stairway to Your forgiveness My sin burdened me heavily, but when I measured it by Your forgiveness Lord, Your forgiveness was the greater.

Abd Allah ibn Mubarak (Allah be pleased with him), said, “How often it is that a small action becomes great by its intention. And how often it is that a great action becomes small by its intention.” [Dhahabi, Siyar A`lam al-Nubala’, 8: 400]

We love to serve, not to be served. When we serve, Allah is happy with us, and this brings more attraction to the Divine Presence and Allah opens that state more for us. However, to be served, brings pride and weakness to the heart and causes us to recedefrom the Divine Presence. [Shah Naqshband (q) ]

Watch your eye, should it ever reveal to you the faults of others, say to it: “O my eye, other people have eyes too.” [Ahmad al Zarruq]

You possess a diamond called Islam. Don’t hide it away - share the light of it with others. [Imam Anwar Al-Awlaki]

"Your nafs is your first battlefield.If you are victorious over it,then you will find the other battlefields easier."
~Imam Hasan Al-Banna Rahimahullah

There are two kinds of speeches and two kinds of silences.

Speech is either truth or falsification,
and silence is either fruition or heedlessness.

If one speaks the truth,
his words are better than his silence,
but the one who invents falsifications,
his silence is better than his speech.

[Al Hujwiri]

Repentance, awareness of God, and uprightness are the foundations of all that is beneficial.

Know that repentance is a key,
God consciousness (taqwa) is vast,
and uprightness is the source of rectification.

[Shaykh Ahmad al Zarruq]

“A man went to the rose garden in search of beautiful blooms but found the beauty he craved in the face of the gardener.” [Rumi]

"Weep like the waterwheel, that green herbs may spring up from the courtyard of your soul."

[Masnavi I:821-2 , Rumi]

Know that the Qur'an is the ocean wherefrom the jewels of knowledge and the treasures of understanding are extracted.

[Imam Abdullah ibn Alawi al Haddad]