The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.
AL-GHAZALI
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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The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.
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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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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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Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.
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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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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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Offen love between two people intensifies not because of beauty or some advantage, but because of sheer spiritual affinity.
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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 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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Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.
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You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.
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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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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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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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The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
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He who does not arrive at the Intuition of these Truths by means of Ecstasy knows only the name of Inspiration.
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