Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.
AL-GHAZALIThis visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.
More Al-Ghazali Quotes
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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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If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?
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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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Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see – Egoism, Arrogance, Conceit, Selfishness, Greed, Lust, Intolerance, Anger, Lying, Cheating, Gossiping and Slandering. If you can master and destroy them, then will be ready to fight the enemy you can see.
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Half of disbelief in Allah in the world is caused by people who make religion look ugly due to their bad conduct and ignorance.
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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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This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.
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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 says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.
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The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.
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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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Remember it is the heart and not the body, which strives to draw near to God. By heart I do not mean the flesh perceived by the senses, but that secret thing which is sometimes expressed by spirit, and sometimes by soul.
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It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother’s milk.
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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.
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