While eating lawful food is a radiant light, eating unlawful food is a suffocating darkness. Eating unlawful food kills the heart, whereas the lawful morsel brings the heart to life.
Hanbali Sunni Muslim preacher, orator, ascetic, mystic, sayyid, faqih, and theologian who was known for being the eponymous founder of the Qadiriyya tariqa (Sufi order) of Sufism.
Only great spirits experience the triumph of success.
The best means of taking revenge on a man is not to resemble that man.
The fly does not enter the mouth that is shut.
To be a great man is easier than being a good man.
To reach and pass by the goal is the same as not reaching it.
When someone rises high, he raises all spirits and this world too.
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it
Violence can only breed more violence and suffering. Our struggle must remain non-violent and free of hatred
Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much
Avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison
Muslim Caliph, Muslim Scholar
Muslim Caliph, Muslim Scholar
Muslim Caliph, Muslim Scholar
Muslim Caliph, Muslim Scholar
