Half of disbelief in Allah in the world is caused by people who make religion look ugly due to their bad conduct and ignorance.
AL-GHAZALIWhoever 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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To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.
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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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Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, “men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned.”
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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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The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
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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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A man of bad character punishes his own soul.
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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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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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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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You must convince your heart that whatever Allah has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial for you.
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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 corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances.
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If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?
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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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