Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.
AL-GHAZALIDo not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.
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If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?
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Love for God is the farthest reach of all stations, the sun of the highest degrees, and there is no station after that of love, except its fruit and its consequences.
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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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Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.
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The way to paradise is an uphill climb whereas hell is downhill. Hence, there is a struggle to get to paradise and not to hell.
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You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.
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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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Work for your terrestrial life in proportion to your location in it, and work for your afterlife in proportion to your eternity in it.
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The corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances.
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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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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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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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The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
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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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