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Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.

Al-Ghazali

A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people.
AL-GHAZALI

Character Human Hurt Nature People Wisdom
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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Freedom God Himself Sorrow Suffering
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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Body Care Himself Leaving Philosophy Religious Soul Spiritual Time Wisdom
If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.
AL-GHAZALI

End Inspirational Wisdom
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.
AL-GHAZALI

Eat Hope Laughter Life Lying Walk Wisdom Yourself
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.
AL-GHAZALI

Body Creation Divine Forever Greatness Live Mean Men Purpose
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.
AL-GHAZALI

Character Divine Dog Men Nature
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.
AL-GHAZALI

Children God Himself Mom Trust Wisdom
Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.
AL-GHAZALI

Desire Inspirational Patience Slave
You must convince your heart that whatever Allah has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial for you.
AL-GHAZALI

Belief God Heart Yourself
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.
AL-GHAZALI

Death End Wisdom World
The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
AL-GHAZALI

Death Deep Happiness One Liner Philosophy River
Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.
AL-GHAZALI

Bird Limitation Music Song
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-GHAZALI

Himself Wisdom Yourself
Work for your terrestrial life in proportion to your location in it, and work for your afterlife in proportion to your eternity in it.
AL-GHAZALI

Forever Life Philosophy Spiritual Wisdom
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.
AL-GHAZALI

Hell Religion Struggle

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