When one looks at a bounty, he should remember the Giver of it, when he looks at a work of art, he should remember the Artist, when he looks at causes, he should remember the Real Causer. (Masnawi an-Nuriyya)

“Had We sent down this Qur'an on a mountain, verily, thou would have seen it humble itself and cleave asunder for fear of Allah, such are the similitudes which We propound to men, that they may reflect.” (Surah Al-Hashr 21)

"O Allah! make the months of Rajab and Shaban blessed for us, and let us reach the month of Ramadan." (Mu’jamus Saghir, 2/90)

O my evil commanding soul! I am not subject to you. Worship whatever you want and pursue whatever you wish; I will be a slave only to the Wise Majestic Creator, who created me and put the sun, the moon and the earth to my disposal. Al-Mathnawi Al-Nuri

"Believers are like stones of a building. They preserve one another from collapsing." (Bukhari, Salat: 88)

So long as man’s dirty hand does not interfere, there is no true uncleanliness or ugliness in anything. (The Flashes)

Allah does not look at your appearance and property; He looks only at your hearts and deeds. (Muslim, Birr and Sila, 34.)

Now consider the birds! A certain indication that their twittering and chirruping is an All-Wise Maker's causing them to speak is the astonishing way in which they express their feelings to one another with those sounds, and state their intentions. (The Words)

A person who performs hajj without uttering bad words and committing sins, he will return to his hometown sinless as if he has just been born. Hadith – Bukhari

“Fear the Fire whose fuel is Men and Stones, which is prepared for those who reject Faith.” (al-Baqara, 2:24.)

Everyone who possesses beauty wants to both see and display his beauty. (The Words)

“Lift up your head, look at the miraculous deeds of the most active and powerful being who wishes to make himself known. In the same way that you are not left to your own devices, so too, these phenomena and events have a master and a purpose.” (The Rays)

When you meet a person returning from hajj, greet him. Shake hands with him and ask him to pray to Allah for your forgiveness before he enters his house because his sins have been forgiven. (Hadith - Jamiu's Saghir 847)

This world is not a place created for people to live eternally. It is an inn and waiting room for the meeting of the creatures invited to the realm of eternal happiness of Allah Almighty. (Masnawi an-Nuriyya)

O man! You have two ways before you. If you follow one of the ways, you will go to the lowest of the low part of the universe. If you follow the other day, you can ascend to the highest of the highest. (From Risale-i Nur Collection)

The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "A person who performs fasting for six days in the month of Shawwal after performing the whole month of Ramadan is regarded to have performed fasting the whole year!." (Riyadu’s-Salihin, Vol.2, p. 510,2.)

Indeed, the All-Wise Qur’an, each of whose words yield thirty thousand eternal fruits, is like a luminous Tree of Tuba that gains for believers in Ramadan millions of those eternal fruits. (Risale-i Nur Collection)

That man can have nothing but what he strives for; (Surah An-Najm, 53:39)

Then looking to the depths of the sea, the traveller saw that apart from the most beautiful, well-adorned and symmetrical jewels, there were thousands of different kinds of animal, sustained and ordered, brought to life and caused to die, in so disciplined a fashion, their provision coming from mere sand and salt water, that it established irresistibly the existence of a Powerful and Glorious, a Merciful and Beauteous Being administering and giving life to them. (The Rays – The Seventh Ray)

For Allah is He Who gives (all) Sustenance― Lord of Power, Steadfast (forever). (Surah Adh-Dhariyat, 51:58)

Man did not come to this world in order to live in fine manner and pass his life in ease and pleasure. Rather, possessing vast capital, he came here to work and do trade for an eternal, everlasting life. The capital given to man is his lifetime. (The Flashes)

The Quran is both mentioning Allah and thought; it is both wisdom and knowledge; it is both truth and shari'ah; it is both a cure for hearts and guidance and mercy for believers. (Masnawi an-Nuriyya)

The month of Ramadan is an extremely profitable display and market for the trade of the hereafter. It is an extremely fertile piece of land for the crops of the hereafter. For the growth and flourishing of actions it is like April showers in the spring. (Letters)

In the month of Ramadan, the instinctual soul of everyone, from the richest to the poorest, may understand that it does not own itself, but is totally owned; that it is not free, but is a slave. It understands that if it receives no command, it is unable to do the simplest and easiest thing, it cannot even stretch out its hand towards water. Its imaginary dominicality is therefore shattered; it performs its worship and begins to offer thanks, its true duty. (The Letters)