A person who has forgotten his sorrows can be forced to confront them once more when someone with the best intentions favors him with a word of comfort.

The shaykh interrupted him, saying, Not so fast. I'm the sort of person who praises only to clear the way to speak the truth, for the sake of encouragement, son of Abd al-Jawad

He was not accustomed to busying himself with introspection or self-analysis. In this way he was like most people who are rarely alone. His mind did not swing into action until some external force...

Perhaps boredom was an irrelevant concept for a life as monotonous as hers.

Every inch a person's body travels on the road of separation seems like miles to the heart.

After living for a month in his home, her character had been infected with the virus of submission to his will, which terrified everyone in the house.

Amusement does not change what is in men's hearts!

At times people who are extremely sad become lighthearted for the most trivial reasons, merely to obtain the relief furnished by the exactly opposite condition.

An anxious heart is like a string that's out of tune.

...love is like health. It is taken lightly when present and cherished when it departs.

Are the hopes of today as lost yesterday?

In order to ensure victory over an enemy, the goal must be invincibility and courage.

The way love can disregard fears, however, is an age-old wonder. No fear is able to spoil love's development or keep it from dreaming of its appointed hour.

There is no calamity that is more so much that one house brings you to you forever.

Longings are aroused in songs of rapture.

Behind our will, Dunya and Satan, mock our design and spoil our good intentions.

Don't go back over the past. Let it depart, never to return.

In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain.

How can I bear the burden of astonishment at the occurrence of something that is considered far from believable as long as I touch it as reality? It's so ridiculous that I wonder whether this can be...

Soon the memories were withheld the whole.

Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.

It is rare for reason and wisdom to satisfy the ambition of an emotion that by nature knows no bounds.

The heart is everything, and with God it is above prayer and fasting.

Bad news has a smell that stings the nose.

Everything continues its usual life as if nothing had happened.

Does a man complete only with love?

How much my longing for you killed me and you do not feel my presence..