This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.
AL-GHAZALIYou must convince your heart that whatever Allah has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial for you.
More Al-Ghazali Quotes
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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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He who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world.
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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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Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.
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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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Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.
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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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Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, “men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned.”
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If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.
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If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?
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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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Each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, since each of them is irreplaceable and once gone, can never be retrieved.
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Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.
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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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The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.
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