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-GHAZALIA man of bad character punishes his own soul.
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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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The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
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You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.
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A man of bad character punishes his own soul.
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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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Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, “men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned.”
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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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A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people.
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The soul should take care of the body, just as the pilgrim on his way to Makkah takes care of his camel; but if the pilgrim spends his whole time in feeding and adorning his camel, the caravan will leave him behind, and he will perish in the desert.
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Dear friend, Your heart is a polished mirror. You must wipe it dean of the veil of dust that has gathered upon it, because it is destined to reflect the light of divine secrets.
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If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.
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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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If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?
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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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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.
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