Alms (is) for the purity of your soul, and flourishment and expansion of your sustenence.

And Allah made the kindness to parents as a protectional shield to His wrath and displeasure.

Fasting (is) for the maintainance and firmness of your sincerity.

Allah made joining and connecting with the kinship and cognation, the cause of lengthening of life.

Allah executed and rendered justice for the sake of putting together and harmonization of the hearts.

Allah set Hajj for the consolidation and reinforcement of the religion.

Commanding goodness and forbiding to do evil (are) for the amendment and correction of society and the common folks.

Allah rendered patience as a help for getting reward.

Allah made the faith for you as a purity from polytheism (and unbelief).

They would sweep their poverty under the carpet if only they had one.

Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong.

You don't have to love me. Just don't leave me," he said against my leg

Truth is always truth, untruth is always untruth. This is what matters, this is right desire.

Group discussion is very valuable; group drafting is less productive.

The wise man knows without traveling.

If fame goes by, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.

God cast you in His play, wrote you into His story. He has a definite direction for your life. Fulfill it and enjoy fulfillment. Play the part God prepared for you and get ready for some great days.

In the same way, I write some of my more difficult pieces when I'm at very happy stages in my life.

If God said, 'Rumi pay homage to everything that has helped you enter my arms,' there would not be one experience of my life, not one thought, not one feeling, nor any act, I would not bow to.