The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.
AL-GHAZALITo get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.
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Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see – Egoism, Arrogance, Conceit, Selfishness, Greed, Lust, Intolerance, Anger, Lying, Cheating, Gossiping and Slandering. If you can master and destroy them, then will be ready to fight the enemy you can see.
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Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.
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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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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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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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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.
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To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.
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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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Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, “men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned.”
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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.
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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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Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.
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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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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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