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.
AL-GHAZALIIf you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?
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If your busy with yourself now, you will be busy with yourself then. If you are busy with Allah now, you will be with Him then.
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In God, there is no sorrow or suffering or affliction. If you want to be free of all affliction and suffering, hold fast to God, and turn wholly to Him, and to no one else. Indeed, all your suffering comes from this: that you do not turn toward God and no one else.
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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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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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If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.
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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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You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.
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The corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances.
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If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?
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He who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world.
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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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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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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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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.
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