The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
AL-GHAZALINever have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.
More Al-Ghazali Quotes
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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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A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people.
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A man of bad character punishes his own soul.
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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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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.
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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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Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.
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Whoever passes forty without his virtue overpowering his vice, let him get ready for hellfire. This advice contains enough for people of knowledge.
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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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You must convince your heart that whatever Allah has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial for you.
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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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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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You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.
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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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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.
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