Each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, since each of them is irreplaceable and once gone, can never be retrieved.
AL-GHAZALIIf you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?
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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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He who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world.
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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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A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people.
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If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.
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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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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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Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.
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The corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances.
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Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see – Egoism, Arrogance, Conceit, Selfishness, Greed, Lust, Intolerance, Anger, Lying, Cheating, Gossiping and Slandering. If you can master and destroy them, then will be ready to fight the enemy you can see.
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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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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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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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You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.
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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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