It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother’s milk.
AL-GHAZALINever have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.
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Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.
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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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To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.
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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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The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.
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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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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.
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The corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances.
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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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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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You must convince your heart that whatever Allah has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial for you.
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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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A man of bad character punishes his own soul.
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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.
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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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