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.
AL-GHAZALIThe corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances.
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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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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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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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Offen love between two people intensifies not because of beauty or some advantage, but because of sheer spiritual affinity.
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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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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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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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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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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 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 possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.
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The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
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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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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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A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people.
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