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-GHAZALIHalf 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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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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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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If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.
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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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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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It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother’s milk.
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Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.
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Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.
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If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?
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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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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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The corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances.
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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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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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This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.
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