Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.
AL-GHAZALIDear 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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You must convince your heart that whatever Allah has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial for you.
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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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The corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances.
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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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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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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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The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.
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The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
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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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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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Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.
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Remember it is the heart and not the body, which strives to draw near to God. By heart I do not mean the flesh perceived by the senses, but that secret thing which is sometimes expressed by spirit, and sometimes by soul.
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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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Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.
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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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