Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, “men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned.”
AL-GHAZALIWhoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.
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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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To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.
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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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You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.
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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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Understand that for every rule which I have mentioned from the Quran, the Devil has one to match it, which he puts beside the proper rule to cause error.
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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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Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.
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Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.
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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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The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.
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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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This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.
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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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If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.
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