If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.
AL-GHAZALIYou possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.
More Al-Ghazali Quotes
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Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.
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If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?
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Know, O beloved, that man was not created in jest or at random, but marvelously made and for some great end. Although he is not form everlasting, yet he lives for ever; and though his body is mean and earthly, yet his spirit is lofty and divine.
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Man’s nature is made up of four elements, which produce in him four attributes, namely, the beastly, the brutal, the satanic, and the divine. In man there is something of the pig, the dog, the devil, and the saint.
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Work for your terrestrial life in proportion to your location in it, and work for your afterlife in proportion to your eternity in it.
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The mere physical man is like the ant crawling on the paper, who observes black lettering and attributes its production to the pen and nothing more.
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Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.
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Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.
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Whoever determines the truth from people alone will remain lost in the plains of bewilderment. Rather, know the truth, and you will know its people.
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In God, there is no sorrow or suffering or affliction. If you want to be free of all affliction and suffering, hold fast to God, and turn wholly to Him, and to no one else. Indeed, all your suffering comes from this: that you do not turn toward God and no one else.
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The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
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To completely trust in Allah is to be like a child who knows deeply that even if he does not call for the mother, the mother is totally aware of his condition and is looking after him.
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Offen love between two people intensifies not because of beauty or some advantage, but because of sheer spiritual affinity.
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Each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, since each of them is irreplaceable and once gone, can never be retrieved.
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This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.
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