Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.
AL-GHAZALIThe happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
More Al-Ghazali Quotes
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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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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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Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.
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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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Love for God is the farthest reach of all stations, the sun of the highest degrees, and there is no station after that of love, except its fruit and its consequences.
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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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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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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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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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A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people.
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Do not dispute with anyone in any matter as far as possible. For in argumentation lies much harm and its evil is greater than its benefit.
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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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Offen love between two people intensifies not because of beauty or some advantage, but because of sheer spiritual affinity.
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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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