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.
AL-GHAZALIIf you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?
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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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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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Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.
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The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.
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In God, there is no sorrow or suffering or affliction. If you want to be free of all affliction and suffering, hold fast to God, and turn wholly to Him, and to no one else. Indeed, all your suffering comes from this: that you do not turn toward God and no one else.
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If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?
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Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.
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Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.
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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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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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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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The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
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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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It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother’s milk.
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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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