Each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, since each of them is irreplaceable and once gone, can never be retrieved.
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.
More Al-Ghazali Quotes
-
-
Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.
AL-GHAZALI -
Whoever passes forty without his virtue overpowering his vice, let him get ready for hellfire. This advice contains enough for people of knowledge.
AL-GHAZALI -
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.
AL-GHAZALI -
You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.
AL-GHAZALI -
Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.
AL-GHAZALI -
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.
AL-GHAZALI -
To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.
AL-GHAZALI -
The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.
AL-GHAZALI -
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.
AL-GHAZALI -
Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.
AL-GHAZALI -
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.
AL-GHAZALI -
Offen love between two people intensifies not because of beauty or some advantage, but because of sheer spiritual affinity.
AL-GHAZALI -
Work for your terrestrial life in proportion to your location in it, and work for your afterlife in proportion to your eternity in it.
AL-GHAZALI -
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.
AL-GHAZALI -
Know, O beloved, that man was not created in jest or at random, but marvelously made and for some great end. Although he is not form everlasting, yet he lives for ever; and though his body is mean and earthly, yet his spirit is lofty and divine.
AL-GHAZALI -
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.
AL-GHAZALI -
Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.
AL-GHAZALI -
A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people.
AL-GHAZALI -
Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.
AL-GHAZALI -
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.
AL-GHAZALI -
People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for reckoning the number of idle words they speak.
AL-GHAZALI -
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.
AL-GHAZALI -
It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother’s milk.
AL-GHAZALI -
If you see Allah, Mighty and Magnificent, holding back this world from you, frequently trying you with adversity and tribulation, know that you hold a great status with Him. Know that He is dealing with you as He does with His Awliya’ and chosen elite, and is watching over you.
AL-GHAZALI -
You must convince your heart that whatever Allah has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial for you.
AL-GHAZALI -
A man of bad character punishes his own soul.
AL-GHAZALI