This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.
AL-GHAZALIDoes 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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Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.
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It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother’s milk.
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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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Offen love between two people intensifies not because of beauty or some advantage, but because of sheer spiritual affinity.
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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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Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.
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Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.
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Man’s nature is made up of four elements, which produce in him four attributes, namely, the beastly, the brutal, the satanic, and the divine. In man there is something of the pig, the dog, the devil, and the saint.
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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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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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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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Whoever passes forty without his virtue overpowering his vice, let him get ready for hellfire. This advice contains enough for people of knowledge.
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Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.
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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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