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.
AL-GHAZALIThose who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.
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Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.
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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 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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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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The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.
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If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.
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Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.
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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.
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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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Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.
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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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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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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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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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