Whoever passes forty without his virtue overpowering his vice, let him get ready for hellfire. This advice contains enough for people of knowledge.
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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Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.
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Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.
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The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
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Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.
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In God, there is no sorrow or suffering or affliction. If you want to be free of all affliction and suffering, hold fast to God, and turn wholly to Him, and to no one else. Indeed, all your suffering comes from this: that you do not turn toward God and no one else.
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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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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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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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He who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world.
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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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If the world had two gods, it would surely go to ruin-this is the first premise. Now it is known that it has not gone to ruin-this is the second premise. From these premises the conclusion must of necessity follow, that is, the denial of two gods.
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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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Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.
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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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