“Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza.Poverty: The result of marriage.”

“Haste is from the Devil.”

“Any society which enjoins its members to adhere to both of these (politeness and truth) is a fraud.”

“Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaEmotionalist:A man or woman who thinks he has experienced the divine.”

“You call me an unbeliever. I shall therefore call you a True Believer since a lie is best met with one of similar magnitude.”

“Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaIntellectual: One who knows no craft.”

“Whoever treads a path seeking knowledge, Allah will make easy for him the path to Paradise."(reported by Ibn Majah and others, fulfilling the conditions of Imam al Bukhari and Imam Muslim)”

“TeachingOne hour's teaching is better than a whole night of prayer.”

“When you see a person who has been given more than you in money and beauty, then look to those who have been given less.”

“We sometimes fail to realise that when we pray to Allah we are in fact performing a great act of ibadah (worship). On the surface it might seem as if we are asking out of self-interest, but we are ...”

“Ibn Mas'ud said that Allah's Messenger said: Abusing a Muslim is sinful and fighting with his tantamount to Kufr. Bukhari Muslim”

“The source of my suffering and loneliness is deep in my heart. This is a disease no doctor can cure. Only Union with the Friend can cure it.”

“O cowardly amd tyrannous race of monks, persecutors of the bard, and the gleemen, haters of life and joy! O race that does not draw the sword and tell the truth! O race that melts the bones of the ...”

“But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of those very men of incorruptible virtue who condemned their spell and their effects.”

“Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway," the priest added cynically, "which is why the church locks them all up in mental hospitals and euphemistically calls these institutions monasteries.”