 | Fear God and you will have no cause to fear any one.
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| Resignation to the Will of God is the cure of the disease
of the heart.
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| The word of God is the medicine of the heart.
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| Lead such a life, that, when you die, the people may mourn
you, and while you are alive they long
for your company.
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| The days of life pass away like clouds, so do good while
you are alive.
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| Of all the follies the greatest is to love the world.
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| Opportunity is swift of flight but slow to return.
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| Pride, cowardice, and miserliness are bad for me but good
for women.
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| The most happy is he to whom God has given a good wife.
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| He who knows himself knows God.
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| Do not soil your conscience for anything but heaven
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| The disease of the heart is worse than the disease of the
body.
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| To fight against one's desires is the greatest of all
fights.
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| The strongest amongst you is he who subdues his self.
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| Wealth and greed are the roots of all evils.
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| Riches without faith are the greatest poverty.
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| A man's worth depends upon the nobility of his aspirations.
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| Knowledge enlivens the soul.
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| The learned lives, although he dies.
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| The sum total of excellence is knowledge.
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| To respect the learned is to respect God.
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| Generosity hides shortcomings.
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| The wealth of a miser is as useless as a pebble.
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| Desire is one's most inveterate enemy.
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| Those who walk on the surface of the earth shall one day be
interred in it.
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| Every breath of man brings him nearer to death.
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| People are asleep as long as they are alive, they are
awakened when they die.
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| Patience is the fruit of faith.
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| Virtue never dies.
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| A man's glory from his virtue is greater than the glory of
his pedigree.
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| No shelter is safer than piety.
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| A man's behavior is the index of his mind.
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| Courtesy costs nothing but buys everything.
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| Clemency graces power.
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| Jealousy devours virtue as fire devours fuel
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| He that lends a listening ear to reproach is one of those
that deserve reproach.
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| Forgiveness is she crown of greatness.
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| Carnal appetites are nets spread by the devil.
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| Every arrow does not hit the mark, nor every prayer
granted.
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| Ostentatiousness spoils prayers.
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| Fear none but your sins.
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| He who praises you murders you.
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| A man who praises himself displays his deficiency of
intellect.
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| Honor your parents and your sons will honor you.
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| A man is hid under his tongue.
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| The tongue of a wise man lies behind his heart.
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| The tongue pierces deeper than the spear.
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| He who purifies his heart from doubt is a believer.
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| The opinion of a wise man is an oracle.
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| To seek counsel is to go to the fountain of guidance.
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| Association with a fool is tyrannical to the soul.
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| God hastens the fall of tyrants.
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| Tyranny leads to moral cowardice.
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| A tyrant's success is his moral defeat.
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| It is better to die than to beg.
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| When a man begs he loses his faith.
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| Hajj is the Jihad of every believer in faith.
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| A wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.
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| Silence is the best reply to a fool.
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| The best speech is one that is short and reasonable.
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| Speech is like a medicine, a small dose of which cures but
an excess of which kills.
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| He that has no courage has no religion.
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| His grief is long whose hope is short.
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| The right of freedom of speech consists in speaking the
truth.
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| Repentance washes away sins.
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| Folly is an incurable disease.
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| To assist the wrong is to oppress the right.
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| Sinning is a disease, repentance is its medicine, and
abstinence from it a sure cure.
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| Sorrow makes a man old before his time.
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| Pride impedes progress and mars greatness.
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| To forgive is the crown of greatness.
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| He who understands humanity seeks solitude.
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| Right is the best argument.
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| Misrepresentation spoils narration.
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| As a man's wisdom increases, so his desire to speak
decreases.
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| He who seeks to do justice with men, let him desire for
them what he desires for himself.
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| The greatest sin is the sin that the sinner considers to be
ordinary.
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| Contentment is the asset which is never exhausted.
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| Governments are a trial for men.
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| He who fights against the truth, the truth will defeat him.
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| Finding fault in others is one's greatest fault.
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| Haste is a species of madness.
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| Greed is perpetual enslavement.
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| He who does not know his own worth is doomed to
destruction.
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| The best investment is one with which duties are performed.
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| Anger is a fire kindled, he who restrains anger
extinguishes the fire; he who gives vent to it is the
first to be consumed by such fire.
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| Jihad is the highway of prosperity.
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| None is more solitary than a miser.
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| Knowledge is the ornament of the rich, and the riches of
the poor.
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| Knowledge is the sum total of excellence.
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| He who teaches you a letter binds you with a fetter of
gratitude.
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| As long as we do not hope, we do not fret.
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| He who indulges in jokes and loose fall, loses a part of
his wisdom.
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| Truth is bitter, but its result is sweet; falsehood appears
to be sweet but it is poisonous in its effect.
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| Miserliness is the root of many evils.
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| Knowledge and practice are twins, and both go together.
There is no knowledge without practice,
and no practice without knowledge.
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| He who dissembles plays with his honor.
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| When God wants to humiliate a person He deprives him of
knowledge.
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| When your power increases, decrease your desires
accordingly.
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| He who listens to a backbiter loses a friend.
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| It is no justice to decide a case on mere conjecture.
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| He who does not know his own worth is deemed to ignominy.
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| He who practices thrift would never be in want.
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| He who does not know should not be ashamed to learn.
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| Patience is to faith, what head is to the body. When
patience goes, faith goes, when head goes, the
body goes.
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| The grace of God is the best guide.
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| A good disposition is the best companion.
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| Wisdom is the best friend.
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| Good breeding is the best inheritance.
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| There is nothing more hateful than pride.
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| Be among men like bee among birds.
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| Mix with the people with your tongue, but be separate from
them in your deeds.
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| Be generous but do not be a spendthrift.
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| Do not run after the world, let the world run after you.
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| A wise man is he who does not despair of the bounty and
mercy of God.
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| He who is aware of his own faults is oblivious of the
faults of others.
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| What the eye sees the heart preserves.
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| The vision of the eye is limited; the vision of the heart
transcends all barriers of time and space.
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| Do not be misled by appearances for these are apt to be
deceptive.
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| Do not have too many irons in the fire; concentrate on one
thing at a time.
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| What you do not like for your self, do not like it for
others.
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| Contentment is the treasure which is never exhausted.
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| The advice of old men is dearer than the bravery of young
men.
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| That knowledge is superficial which is merely on the
tongue. That knowledge is real which
demonstrates itself in your practice.
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| Waste of time is one's greatest loss.
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| He who knows to keep his secret knows the way to success.
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| Foresight is the way to safety.
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| No relationship is stronger than the relationship that
exists between man and God.
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| Enlighten the heart with prayers.
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| Strengthen your heart with faith.
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| Suppress all lust with piety.
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| Do not sell the Hereafter for the world.
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| Do not speak in a state of ignorance.
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| Refrain from unnecessary talk.
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| Do not tread the path from which you can apprehend the
danger of running astray.
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| In the affairs of God, do not be afraid of the accusations
of the evil mongers.
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| In all that you do seek the protection of God.
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| Do not covet what is undesirable.
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| If you seek the truth neither stray from the right path,
nor be assailed by doubts.
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| Do not become a slave of your desires.
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| That wealth is no wealth which brings dishonor.
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| Whatever harm accrues of silence can be remedied but
whatever harm is done because of speech
cannot be remedied.
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| It is better to restrain your desires than to stretch your
hand before others.
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| A little that is earned because of honest labor is better
than a larger amount gained through
dishonest means.
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| Guard well your secret.
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| He who seeks more than what is necessary indulges in error.
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| To oppress the weak is the worst tyranny.
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| Do not bank on false hopes for that is the capital of the
dead.
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| A wise man takes a lesson even from a minor lapse.
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| Overpower desires and suspicions by patience and faith.
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| He who does not take the middle course strays.
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| A stranger is he who has no friends.
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| When hopes are frustrated despair becomes the way of life.
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| He who trusts the world, the world betrays him.
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