...Pay careful heed to this piece of advise.....

.....Pay careful heed to this piece of good advice. Attach it firmly to your hearts, and do not treat it as just an idea to be considered mentally and compared theoretically with other ideas. I have drawn your attention to something that may seem rather unimportant, but which carries a very considerable reward. How splendid is a good moral character, for it is a source of comfort to its owner and to other people as well, and how disgusting is a bad moral character, for it is a burden to its owner and a cause of pain to others!.....

Taken from “The Fortieth Discourse”, given in the year A.H.546/1152 C.E.by Sheik' Abd Al-Qadir Al-Jilani, of the book titled, “The Removal of Cares (Jala Al-Khawatir).