Work for your terrestrial life in proportion to your location in it, and work for your afterlife in proportion to your eternity in it.
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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If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?
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The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
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The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.
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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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No one who possesses snow would find any hardship in exchanging it for jewels and pearls. This world is like snow exposed to sun, which continues to melt until it disappears altogether, while the next life is like a precious stone that never passes away.
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To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.
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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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You must convince your heart that whatever Allah has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial for you.
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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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Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.
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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 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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To completely trust in Allah is to be like a child who knows deeply that even if he does not call for the mother, the mother is totally aware of his condition and is looking after him.
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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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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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