black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.

Al-Ghazali

The corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances.
AL-GHAZALI

Appearance Corruption Religion Word
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.
AL-GHAZALI

Character Cheat Enemy Lying Religious See Yourself
Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.
AL-GHAZALI

Existence Human Knowledge Potential Soul
Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.
AL-GHAZALI

Appearance Inspirational Patience Sea
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-GHAZALI

Forever Life Philosophy Spiritual Wisdom
Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.
AL-GHAZALI

Action Fools Knowledge Philosophy Waste
A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people.
AL-GHAZALI

Character Human Hurt Nature People Wisdom
If the world had two gods, it would surely go to ruin-this is the first premise. Now it is known that it has not gone to ruin-this is the second premise. From these premises the conclusion must of necessity follow, that is, the denial of two gods.
AL-GHAZALI

God Ruin World
Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.
AL-GHAZALI

Deal Difficult Help Myself Oppression Soul
This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.
AL-GHAZALI

Oneself Philosophy Shadow World
If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?
AL-GHAZALI

Deep Life Preparation Spiritual Yourself
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.
AL-GHAZALI

Body Care Himself Leaving Philosophy Religious Soul Spiritual Time Wisdom
Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.
AL-GHAZALI

Bird Limitation Music Song
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-GHAZALI

Nature Prayer Religious Wisdom Word
Half of disbelief in Allah in the world is caused by people who make religion look ugly due to their bad conduct and ignorance.
AL-GHAZALI

Ignorance People Religion Ugly World
He who does not arrive at the Intuition of these Truths by means of Ecstasy knows only the name of Inspiration.
AL-GHAZALI

Himself Inspirational Truth

Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Al-Ghazali Quotes