To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.
AL-GHAZALIOffen love between two people intensifies not because of beauty or some advantage, but because of sheer spiritual affinity.
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If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.
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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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Half of disbelief in Allah in the world is caused by people who make religion look ugly due to their bad conduct and ignorance.
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Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.
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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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To completely trust in Allah is to be like a child who knows deeply that even if he does not call for the mother, the mother is totally aware of his condition and is looking after him.
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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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Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.
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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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This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.
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Dear friend, Your heart is a polished mirror. You must wipe it dean of the veil of dust that has gathered upon it, because it is destined to reflect the light of divine secrets.
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A man of bad character punishes his own soul.
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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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Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.
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Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.
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