• With every joy comes a grief, and no house is filled with happiness without also being filled with tears (1).

• Each of you is only a guest, and whatever he owns is on loan; the guest must depart, and the loan will be returned to its rightful owners (2).

• In the latter days there will be people whose best “deed” is nothing more than mutual recrimination; they will be called al-antan (the putrid ones) (3).

• If a man wishes to be fair to himself, let him treat others in the very way he would like to be treated (4).

• Truth is weighty yet wholesome, whereas falsehood is light yet pernicious. How often a fleeting desire bequeaths a long sorrow (5).

• Nothing on the face of the earth is more in need of a lengthy imprisonment than the tongue (6).

• When fornication and usury become widespread in any village, its destruction has already been authorized (7).

• Whoever among you can store his treasure in the heavens—where no moth consumes it and no thief can reach it—let him do so; for a man’s heart is bound to his treasure (8).