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.
AL-GHAZALIWhoever 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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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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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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He who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world.
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It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother’s milk.
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Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.
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You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.
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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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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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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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Offen love between two people intensifies not because of beauty or some advantage, but because of sheer spiritual affinity.
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He who does not arrive at the Intuition of these Truths by means of Ecstasy knows only the name of Inspiration.
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This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.
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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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