Philosophical Sayings

The parable of the believers in their mutual love and mercy is like one body; if one part of it suffers, the whole body suffers in sleeplessness and fever.

No two people who love each other meet, but the best of them is the one who loves his companion more.

The greatest of sins in the sight of Allah is that you associate partners with Allah, then kill your child fearing that he will eat with you, then commit adultery with the wife of your neighbor.

He who is deprived of kindness is deprived of good.

The best of homes is the home where an orphan is treated well.

A good word is charity.

The believer's shade on the Day of Resurrection will be his charity.

Save yourself from Hellfire even by giving half a date-fruit in charity.

The world is for three kinds of people: a servant whom Allah provides with sustenance, wealth, and knowledge, so he fears his Lord and maintains kinship ties and knows the rights of Allah in it. This is the best of people. And a servant whom Allah pr…

I have not told the half of what I saw.

I speak and speak, [...] but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. [...] It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

Without stones there is no arch.

I believe it was God's will that we should come back, so that men might know the things that are in the world, since, as we have said in the first chapter of this book, no other man, Christian or Saracen, Mongol or pagan, has explored so much of the …

My heart beats as much as I can breathe.

We go naked because we want nothing of this world; for we came into the world naked and unclothed.

As for not being ashamed to show our members, the fact is that we do no sin with them and therefore have no more shame in them than you have when you show your hand or face or the other parts of your body that do not lead you into carnal sin; whereas…

Traveling offers you a hundred roads to adventure, and gives your heart wings!

Who lives sees, but who travels sees more.