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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.

Al-Ghazali

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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Exception God Love Result Sun
He who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world.
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Fasting Himself Hope See World
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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Advice Enough Knowledge People Virtue Wisdom
Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.
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Action Fools Knowledge Philosophy Waste
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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Black Man Wisdom
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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Evil Greatness Harmful Lie Lying Possible Wisdom
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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Children God Himself Mom Trust Wisdom
Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.
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Deal Difficult Help Myself Oppression Soul
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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Body Care Himself Leaving Philosophy Religious Soul Spiritual Time Wisdom
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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God Ruin World
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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Forever Life Philosophy Spiritual Wisdom
The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.
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Believe Hypocrite Wisdom
A man of bad character punishes his own soul.
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Character Men Punishment Soul
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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Hell Religion Struggle
This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.
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Oneself Philosophy Shadow World
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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Expression Heart Mean Remember Secret Soul Spirit

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