He who does not arrive at the Intuition of these Truths by means of Ecstasy knows only the name of Inspiration.
AL-GHAZALIA human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people.
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The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
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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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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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Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.
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A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people.
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Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.
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Love for God is the farthest reach of all stations, the sun of the highest degrees, and there is no station after that of love, except its fruit and its consequences.
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People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for reckoning the number of idle words they speak.
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Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, “men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned.”
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He who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world.
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The corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances.
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Understand that for every rule which I have mentioned from the Quran, the Devil has one to match it, which he puts beside the proper rule to cause error.
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If the world had two gods, it would surely go to ruin-this is the first premise. Now it is known that it has not gone to ruin-this is the second premise. From these premises the conclusion must of necessity follow, that is, the denial of two gods.
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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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If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?
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