Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.
– Abu Bakr
When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God.
– Abu Bakr
When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.
– Abu Bakr
There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.
– Abu Bakr
There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.
– Abu Bakr
The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.
– Abu Bakr
The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
– Abu Bakr
Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.
– Abu Bakr
O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
– Abu Bakr
Knowledge is the life of the mind.
– Abu Bakr
It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.
– Abu Bakr
If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.
– Abu Bakr
If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
– Abu Bakr
He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.
– Abu Bakr
He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.
– Abu Bakr
He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
– Abu Bakr
Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
– Abu Bakr
God helps those who fear Him.
– Abu Bakr
Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God.
– Abu Bakr
Do not follow vain desires for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
– Abu Bakr
Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.
– Abu Bakr
Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.