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.
AL-GHAZALIIf 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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Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see – Egoism, Arrogance, Conceit, Selfishness, Greed, Lust, Intolerance, Anger, Lying, Cheating, Gossiping and Slandering. If you can master and destroy them, then will be ready to fight the enemy you can see.
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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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A man of bad character punishes his own soul.
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The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
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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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It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother’s milk.
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This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.
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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 you see Allah, Mighty and Magnificent, holding back this world from you, frequently trying you with adversity and tribulation, know that you hold a great status with Him. Know that He is dealing with you as He does with His Awliya’ and chosen elite, and is watching over you.
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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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Offen love between two people intensifies not because of beauty or some advantage, but because of sheer spiritual affinity.
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Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.
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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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Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.
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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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