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.
AL-GHAZALIIf you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?
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Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.
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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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Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.
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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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If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?
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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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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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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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A man of bad character punishes his own soul.
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Know, O beloved, that man was not created in jest or at random, but marvelously made and for some great end. Although he is not form everlasting, yet he lives for ever; and though his body is mean and earthly, yet his spirit is lofty and divine.
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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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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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Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, “men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned.”
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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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Offen love between two people intensifies not because of beauty or some advantage, but because of sheer spiritual affinity.
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