Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.
AL-GHAZALIIf those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.
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In God, there is no sorrow or suffering or affliction. If you want to be free of all affliction and suffering, hold fast to God, and turn wholly to Him, and to no one else. Indeed, all your suffering comes from this: that you do not turn toward God and no one else.
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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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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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You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.
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If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?
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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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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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A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people.
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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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Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, “men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned.”
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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 those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.
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Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.
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Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.
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