A handsome woman is a jewel; a good woman is a treasure.

By love bitter things become sweet; by love pieces of copper become golden;. By love dregs become clear; by love pains become healing;. By love the dead is made living; by love the king is made a slave.

When the heart becomes whole (is healed) of pain and disease, it will recognize.the flavour of falsehood and truth.

For every pain comes a remedy and.after darkness comes light.

When you have closed this bodily mouth, another mouth is opened, which.becomes an eater of the morsels of spiritual mysteries.

When you have closed this bodily mouth, another mouth is opened, which.becomes an eater of the morsels of spiritual mysteries.

Everything unsweet is made sweet by hunger: without hunger all sweet things.are unacceptable.

The affliction of hunger is purer than all other afflictions, especially since in.hunger there are a hundred benefits and merits.

Your hearers nod their heads in approval in your presence: you waste your time.in trying to attract them with passionate desire.

Accept the Divine command, “Be silent,”so that the reward of “Be silent”.may come to your soul from the Beloved.

Patience and silence attract the Divine mercy, while seeking this sign is a sign.of insight.

Since I shall be left alone at the last, it is not proper for me to become friendly.with every man and woman.

Everyone who is wise chose the bottom of the well to live in, because spiritual.joys can only be attained in solitude.

Kill the snake of lust at the beginning; otherwise, you see, your snake becomes.a dragon.

But lust is the slave of holy men: gold does not burn in the fire, because it is.sterling coin from the mine.

Lust arises from eating and drinking: diminish your food, or marry and in this.way flee from wickedness.

You have such an enemy as this in your inner being: she is the preventer of the.intellect, and the adversary of the spirit and of religion.

Adam took one step in sensual pleasure: separation from his high place in.Paradise became a collar on the neck of his fleshly soul (nafs).

"If the sun has risen, then it is daytime. But the sun has not.risen. Therefore, it is not daytime.".

If you do not have sovereignty over your own beard, how will you exercise.sovereignty over good and evil?.