"Sometimes you may find a man skillful in his trade, perfect in sagacity and in the use of arguments, but when he come…"

"Some worse people than I have entered Paradise! But it is not everybody’s fortune to be granted forgiveness, it is li…"

"Whenever I reflect, my reflecting upon what I suffer only rouses me to blame him that begot me. And I gave peace to m…"

"We laugh, but inept is our laughter; We should weep and weep sore, Who are shattered like glass, and thereafter Re-mo…"

"Methink I am thrice-imprisoned—ask not me Of news that need no telling— By loss of sight, confinement in my house, An…"

"The holy fights by Moslem heroes fought, The saintly works by Christian hermits wrought And those of Jewry or of Sabi…"

"They know me well. How could they conceal a resplendent sun?"

"And I, albeit I come in Time's late hour, Achieve what lay not in the ancients' power."

"ولو أنّي حُبِيتُ الخُلْدَ فَرْداً لمَا أحبَبْتُ بالخُلْدِ انفِرادا فلا هَطَلَتْ عَلَيّ ولا بأرْضي سَحائبُ ليسَ تنْتَظ…"

"Men of acute mind call me an ascetic, but they are wrong in their diagnosis. Although I disciplined my desires, I onl…"