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-GHAZALIHe who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world.
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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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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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To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.
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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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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.
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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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You must convince your heart that whatever Allah has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial for you.
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Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.
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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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It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother’s milk.
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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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If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.
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The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.
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