The corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances.
AL-GHAZALI
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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The corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances.
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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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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 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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The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.
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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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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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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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You must convince your heart that whatever Allah has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial for you.
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Remember it is the heart and not the body, which strives to draw near to God. By heart I do not mean the flesh perceived by the senses, but that secret thing which is sometimes expressed by spirit, and sometimes by soul.
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It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother’s milk.
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If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.
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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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Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.
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Understand that for every rule which I have mentioned from the Quran, the Devil has one to match it, which he puts beside the proper rule to cause error.
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Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.
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