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.
AL-GHAZALIThe happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
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The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.
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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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If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?
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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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The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
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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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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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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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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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It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother’s milk.
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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.
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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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Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.
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Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.
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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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