"The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes…"

"Those who deny the first principle should be flogged or burned until they admit that it is not the same thing to be b…"

"God, the supreme being, is neither circumscribed by space, nor touched by time; he cannot be found in a particular di…"

"I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length."

"Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health."

"Religious law makes it illegal for the ignorant to drink wine, but intelligence makes it legal for the intellectual."

"The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit."

"The doctrine of Tawhid is; "God is One, Alone, Single, Eternal, Everlasting, Knowing, Powerful, Living, Hearing, Seei…"

"The end of the gnostic is traceable 'when he is as he was where he was before he was.' The gnostic then has made easy…"

"Love is of two natures; the love which is tranquil, which is found among both the elect and the common folk, and the …"