The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.
AL-GHAZALIThe happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
More Al-Ghazali Quotes
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You must convince your heart that whatever Allah has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial for you.
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Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.
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People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for reckoning the number of idle words they speak.
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Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.
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To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.
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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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Offen love between two people intensifies not because of beauty or some advantage, but because of sheer spiritual affinity.
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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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A man of bad character punishes his own soul.
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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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Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.
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If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?
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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 corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances.
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Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.
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