To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.
AL-GHAZALIDo 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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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 happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
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No one who possesses snow would find any hardship in exchanging it for jewels and pearls. This world is like snow exposed to sun, which continues to melt until it disappears altogether, while the next life is like a precious stone that never passes away.
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Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.
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The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.
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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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To completely trust in Allah is to be like a child who knows deeply that even if he does not call for the mother, the mother is totally aware of his condition and is looking after him.
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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 you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?
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It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother’s milk.
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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 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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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 corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances.
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