Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, “men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned.”
AL-GHAZALIA human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people.
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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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The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.
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Half of disbelief in Allah in the world is caused by people who make religion look ugly due to their bad conduct and ignorance.
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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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You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.
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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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Offen love between two people intensifies not because of beauty or some advantage, but because of sheer spiritual affinity.
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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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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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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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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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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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It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother’s milk.
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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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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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