"The upper hand is better than the lower hand (i.e., the one who gives is better than the one who takes)."

"The world is for three kinds of people: a servant whom Allah provides with sustenance, wealth, and knowledge, so he fears his Lord and maintains kinship ties and knows the rights of Allah in it. This …"

"On another occasion, again against a Jewish tribe of Medina, he ordered all the tribe's adult males, some nine hundred, beheaded in the city square, the women and children sold into slavery, and their…"

"I have been made victorious with terror."

"A woman may be married for four reasons: her wealth, her lineage, her beauty, and her religion. So marry the religious woman, lest your hands be rubbed in dirt!"