If you see Allah, Mighty and Magnificent, holding back this world from you, frequently trying you with adversity and tribulation, know that you hold a great status with Him. Know that He is dealing with you as He does with His Awliya’ and chosen elite, and is watching over you.
AL-GHAZALIThe happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
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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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It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother’s milk.
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If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?
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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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Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.
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The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.
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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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The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
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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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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 corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances.
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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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Whoever determines the truth from people alone will remain lost in the plains of bewilderment. Rather, know the truth, and you will know its people.
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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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Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, “men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned.”
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