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He who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali You must convince your heart that whatever Allah has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial for you.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali Do not fix hopes on your health, and do not laugh away life. Remember how they walked and now all their joints lie separately, and the tongue with which they talked lightly is eaten away by the worms.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother’s milk.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali A man of bad character punishes his own soul.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali Work for your terrestrial life in proportion to your location in it, and work for your afterlife in proportion to your eternity in it.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali Whoever passes forty without his virtue overpowering his vice, let him get ready for hellfire. This advice contains enough for people of knowledge.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali 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.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali The corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances.
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