Humility

For it is truly no small gain, when a man has passed from a great house and an illustrious family to the life of the Gospel, to bridle his youth by reason, to make the passions of the flesh slaves to reason, and to practise the humility that a Christian owes, thinking of himself as is fitting—whence he sprang and whither he is going.

the subjection of the body, a lowly mind, purity of thought, the doing away with anger.

Let us boast of nothing but an intelligent friend — and whoever has found kindness a fetter is fettered by it — and I have seen nothing like humility for height — and it was as though it, and as though they, were dreams — God is One and loves the one alone, so be alone.

let the humble-minded bear witness not to himself, but let him allow himself to be witnessed to by another;

he holds to humility and says:

7 — Feel your own lowliness before whoever is lowly in your eyes, and thank your Lord for what He has conferred upon you.

Written with his pen, humbled before the majesty of God Sayyid ʻAlī al-Ṭūbjī on 16 Ramaḍān, the year 1335