Whoever passes forty without his virtue overpowering his vice, let him get ready for hellfire. This advice contains enough for people of knowledge.
AL-GHAZALIRemember 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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The corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances.
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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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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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Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.
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If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?
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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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Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.
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Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.
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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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Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, “men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned.”
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Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.
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You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.
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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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A man of bad character punishes his own soul.
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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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