If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?
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.
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The corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances.
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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.
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It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother’s milk.
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If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.
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This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.
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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.
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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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Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.
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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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Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.
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The way to paradise is an uphill climb whereas hell is downhill. Hence, there is a struggle to get to paradise and not to hell.
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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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Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.
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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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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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