This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.
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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.
More Al-Ghazali Quotes
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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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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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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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Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.
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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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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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Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.
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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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He who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world.
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If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?
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You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.
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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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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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Offen love between two people intensifies not because of beauty or some advantage, but because of sheer spiritual affinity.
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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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