A wise man's question contains half the answer.
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As long as a word remains unspoken, you are it's master once you utter it, you are it's slave.
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Dive into the sea of thought, and find there pearls beyond price.
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1. During civil disturbance adopt such an attitude that people do not attach any importance to you - they neither burden you with complicated affairs, nor try to derive any advantage out of you.
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Whoever takes someone's property, or uses him for forced labor, or presses an unjustified claim upon him. It should be known that this is what the Lawgiver had in mind when he forbade injustice.
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The light that cometh from her (wisdom) never goeth out
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2. He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort.
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A man's measure is his will.
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Live amongst people in such a manner that if you die they weep over you and if you are alive they crave for your company.
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Man is a wonderful creature; he sees through the layers of fat (eyes), hears through a bone (ears) and speaks through a lump of flesh (tongue).
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If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.
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He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort.
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Be generous but not extravagant, be frugal but not miserly.
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The best kind of wealth is to give up inordinate desires.
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A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks.
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Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.
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He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
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Unfortunate is he who cannot gain a few sincere friends during his life and more unfortunate is the one who has gained them and then lost them (through his deeds).
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Be afraid of a gentleman when he is hungry, and of a mean person when his stomach is full.
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He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.
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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.
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