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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Al-Ghazali47 quotes“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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Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali 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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