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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

Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, “men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned.”
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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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Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.
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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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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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The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
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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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He who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world.
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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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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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To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.
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Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.
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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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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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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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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 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 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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