Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.
AL-GHAZALIThe hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.
More Al-Ghazali Quotes
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Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.
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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 says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.
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If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.
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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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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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Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.
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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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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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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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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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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 exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.
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To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.
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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 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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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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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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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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A man of bad character punishes his own soul.
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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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Dear friend, Your heart is a polished mirror. You must wipe it dean of the veil of dust that has gathered upon it, because it is destined to reflect the light of divine secrets.
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You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.
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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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