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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Al-Ghazali47 quotes“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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