Stop thinking all the time that you’re in the way, that you’re bothering the person next to you. If people don’t like it, they can complain. If they don’t have the courage to complain, that’s their problem.

This world does not really please as much as it hurts; it pleases for a short time, but it leads to longer agonies and wider sadness.

The most burdensome prayers for the hypocrites are salaat al-’isha’ and salaat al-fajr, but if they only knew what they contain, they would come even if they had to crawl.

The soul will never become pious and purified except through undergoing afflictions. It is the same as gold that can never be pure except after removing all the base metals in it.

You know what’s kind of beautiful?

When you are free inside, you will never allow anyone to take away your freedom. And when you have inner freedom, you can look through tyrants and thugs to the Lord of the tyrants and thugs. When you are free inside, you become unenslaveable, because you can only enslave a person with attachments. You can only threaten a person who is afraid of loss. You only have power over someone when they need or want something that you have the ability to take away. But there is only one thing which no person has the power to take away from you: God.

What really counts are good endings, not flawed beginnings.

Who you love is a reflection of who you are.