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.
AL-GHAZALIThe 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.
More Al-Ghazali Quotes
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Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.
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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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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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Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.
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Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.
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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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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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You must convince your heart that whatever Allah has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial for you.
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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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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.
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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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You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.
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If you see Allah, Mighty and Magnificent, holding back this world from you, frequently trying you with adversity and tribulation, know that you hold a great status with Him. Know that He is dealing with you as He does with His Awliya’ and chosen elite, and is watching over you.
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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 happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
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