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.
AL-GHAZALIIn 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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Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.
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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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The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.
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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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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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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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To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.
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Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.
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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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The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
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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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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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Dear friend, Your heart is a polished mirror. You must wipe it dean of the veil of dust that has gathered upon it, because it is destined to reflect the light of divine secrets.
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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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It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother’s milk.
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A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people.
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If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.
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Know, O beloved, that man was not created in jest or at random, but marvelously made and for some great end. Although he is not form everlasting, yet he lives for ever; and though his body is mean and earthly, yet his spirit is lofty and divine.
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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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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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Offen love between two people intensifies not because of beauty or some advantage, but because of sheer spiritual affinity.
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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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Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.
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A man of bad character punishes his own soul.
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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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Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, “men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned.”
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