Each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, since each of them is irreplaceable and once gone, can never be retrieved.
AL-GHAZALIDeclare 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.
More Al-Ghazali Quotes
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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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Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.
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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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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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Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.
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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 happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
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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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Offen love between two people intensifies not because of beauty or some advantage, but because of sheer spiritual affinity.
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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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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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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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You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.
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