Work for your terrestrial life in proportion to your location in it, and work for your afterlife in proportion to your eternity in it.
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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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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It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother’s milk.
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Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.
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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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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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Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, “men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned.”
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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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Dear friend, Your heart is a polished mirror. You must wipe it dean of the veil of dust that has gathered upon it, because it is destined to reflect the light of divine secrets.
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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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Whoever passes forty without his virtue overpowering his vice, let him get ready for hellfire. This advice contains enough for people of knowledge.
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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 allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.
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You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.
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The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
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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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