The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.
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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The corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances.
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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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Offen love between two people intensifies not because of beauty or some advantage, but because of sheer spiritual affinity.
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Man’s nature is made up of four elements, which produce in him four attributes, namely, the beastly, the brutal, the satanic, and the divine. In man there is something of the pig, the dog, the devil, and the saint.
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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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You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.
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To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.
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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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Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.
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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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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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He who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world.
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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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The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
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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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