Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.
AL-GHAZALIThe way to paradise is an uphill climb whereas hell is downhill. Hence, there is a struggle to get to paradise and not to hell.
More Al-Ghazali Quotes
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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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If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?
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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 must convince your heart that whatever Allah has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial for you.
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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.
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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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If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.
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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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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 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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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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The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.
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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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Each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, since each of them is irreplaceable and once gone, can never be retrieved.
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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.
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