(1171)Lambs are blessings (of God).

(1172)Laughing is of two kinds-that which God likes, i.e. a man's smiling at his brother's face out of pleasure to see him, and that which the Exalted God dislikes, i.e. a man's saying something false or unjust to laugh or make people laugh and thus, falling to Hell for seventy autumns.

(1173)Learn shooting and horsemanship, but I love you shoot more than ride on horseback. Whatever makes you busy is idle, save shooting an arrow, training your horse or playing with your wives. All these are among your rights, and whoever abandons shooting after having learned it, is guilty of ingratitude to his teacher.

(1174)Learn whatever you like, for God will not let you avail yourself of your knowledge unless you put it to practice.

(1175)Learning in childhood is like unto carving (something) on stone, and learning in old age resembles writing on water.

(1176)Learning knowledge, putting it to practice and teaching it to others is a form of charity for man.

(1177)Leave people on their own,(for) God bestows sustenance on some through others.

(1178)Leave the world to the secular, (for) whoever takes of the world beyond his need, is unknowingly ruining himself (indeed).

(1179)Leave the world to the seekers of the world, for those who pick up from it beyond their need, are surely trying to ruin themselves, but they know it not, indeed.

(1180)Leaving a receiver of daily bread on his/her own suffices to make the provider sinful.

(1181)Lending something is better than giving it in charity.

(1182)  Lending something twice is better than giving it in charity once.

(1183)Leniency decorates its host but degrades it, taking distance with it.

(1184)Leniency leads to covetousness, and severity to inauspiciousness.

(1185)Let me inform you of people's affairs and manners: He who quickly raised to anger but quickly colds sown is neither good nor bad, he who is hardly raised to anger and quickly cools down is good not bad, he who claims his rights and pays his debts is neither good nor bad, and he who claims his rights but postpones securing people's rights is bad, not good.

(1186)Let not people’s awe make you ignore the observance of the rights you know about.

(1187)Let not the signs of the kind appear in you, without yourself being kind; for you’ll be a company to hypocrites (in the Hereafter).

(1188)Let people avail themselves of one another, and when one of you counsels his brother, to him should the latter his views offer.

(1189)Let water flow amiss your fingers in ablution so that God might keep Fire from flowing there.

(1190)Let your fellow travelers be lucky, well-to-do people.

(1191)Let your time-aged friendship continue, for God the Exalted loves this continuation.

(1192)Light up lanterns early in the morning, for it brings you the greatest of rewards.

(1193)Light-minded is the one who makes his (her) guest serve him (her).

(1194)Little wealth for which one can thank God is better than a lot for which one falls short in so doing.

(1195)Live as a stranger or wayfarer in this world, and see yourself among the dwellers of graves.

(1196)Live as guests in this world, consider mosques as your houses, make your hearts accustomed to leniency, think and bewail a lot, and try to be not deviated by carnal desires. Many a building you make wherein you will not reside, many a kind of food stuff you prepare which you will not be able to eat, and many a yearning you have which you will not be able to realize!

(1197)Live as long as you wish, for you will finally perish, love whoever wants your heart, for from him\her you’ll finally depart, and do whatever you wish to do, for it will finally come back to you.

(1198)Loneliness is better than having a bad companion, and a good companion is better than loneliness.Uttering good words is better than silence, and silence is better than uttering bad words.

(1199)Longing for people’s praise blinds one’s eyes and deafens one’s ears.

(1200)Look at the graves (of men) and from the resurrection (of the dead) learn a lesson.

(1201)Look at those who are lower that you (in material possessions), not at those who are higher, and thus you (can) better appreciate God’s blessings.

(1202)Look! You are not superior to the black or red in anything but piety.

(1203)Looking (dispassionately) at beautiful women and at green grass strengthens eyesight.

(1204)Looking at the bright side of everything comes from proper worshipping.

(1205)Looking at the letter of one’s brother without his permission is looking at Hell indeed.

(1206)Lose your modesty and do whatever you want to.

(1207)Loser is the one in whose heart the Exalted God has not placed sympathy towards other human beings.

(1208)Loving a servant, God deprives him (her) of the world, just as you deprive your patients of drinking water.

(1209)Loving a servant, God puts him (her) to test to see him (her) supplicating.

(1210)Loving a servant, God puts him (her) to test, and loving him (her) more, He chooses the servant for Himself. “How?”, the people demanded. The Holy Prophet replied: “By leaving him (her) without property and heir.”

(1211)Loving a servant, God throws His love for him in the angels’ hearts, and detesting him, He sets His hatred in their hearts as well as in men’s hearts.

(1212)Lustful music makes hypocrisy in one’s heart show, just as water makes sown seeds grow.

(1213)Lying darkens one’s face, and tale bearing entails chastisement in the grave.