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.
AL-GHAZALIWhoever passes forty without his virtue overpowering his vice, let him get ready for hellfire. This advice contains enough for people of knowledge.
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Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.
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The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.
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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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To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.
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A man of bad character punishes his own soul.
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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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No one who possesses snow would find any hardship in exchanging it for jewels and pearls. This world is like snow exposed to sun, which continues to melt until it disappears altogether, while the next life is like a precious stone that never passes away.
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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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The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
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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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He who does not arrive at the Intuition of these Truths by means of Ecstasy knows only the name of Inspiration.
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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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Do not dispute with anyone in any matter as far as possible. For in argumentation lies much harm and its evil is greater than its benefit.
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Whoever passes forty without his virtue overpowering his vice, let him get ready for hellfire. This advice contains enough for people of knowledge.
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