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 does not arrive at the Intuition of these Truths by means of Ecstasy knows only the name of Inspiration.
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The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
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Do not fix hopes on your health, and do not laugh away life. Remember how they walked and now all their joints lie separately, and the tongue with which they talked lightly is eaten away by the worms.
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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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Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.
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Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.
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A man of bad character punishes his own soul.
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The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.
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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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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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Man’s nature is made up of four elements, which produce in him four attributes, namely, the beastly, the brutal, the satanic, and the divine. In man there is something of the pig, the dog, the devil, and the saint.
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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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Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.
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The corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances.
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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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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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