You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.
AL-GHAZALIYou must convince your heart that whatever Allah has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial for you.
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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It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother’s milk.
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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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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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Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.
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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 says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.
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If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?
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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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A man of bad character punishes his own soul.
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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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Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.
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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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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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Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.
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