• Anyone whose prayer does not spur him to what is right and restrain him from what is wrong gains from it nothing but greater distance from Allah (1).
• Part of true certitude is that you never seek to please people by angering Allah, that you praise no one for the provision Allah has granted, and that you blame no one for what Allah has withheld from you. Allah’s provision is brought neither by the eagerness of the eager nor driven away by the aversion of the averse. By His justice, forbearance, and equity, Allah has placed relief and joy in certitude and contentment, and has placed anxiety and sorrow in doubt and displeasure (2).
• As long as you are in prayer you are knocking at the door of the Sovereign, and whoever keeps knocking at the Sovereign’s door will have it opened for him (3).
• I am convinced that a man forgets the knowledge he once possessed because of a sin he commits (4).
• Be springs of knowledge, lamps of guidance, anchors within your homes, lights of the night, renewers of hearts, wearers of thread-bare clothes—known in heaven yet unnoticed by the people of earth (5).
• Hearts experience longing and withdrawal; seize them when they yearn and turn toward you, and leave them when they tire and turn away (6).