The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
AL-GHAZALIIf those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.
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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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The way to paradise is an uphill climb whereas hell is downhill. Hence, there is a struggle to get to paradise and not to hell.
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Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.
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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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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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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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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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Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.
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If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.
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Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.
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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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Offen love between two people intensifies not because of beauty or some advantage, but because of sheer spiritual affinity.
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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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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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