Al-Ghazali on wisdom
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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Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali Half of disbelief in Allah in the world is caused by people who make religion look ugly due to their bad conduct and ignorance.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali 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.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali He who does not arrive at the Intuition of these Truths by means of Ecstasy knows only the name of Inspiration.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali Offen love between two people intensifies not because of beauty or some advantage, but because of sheer spiritual affinity.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali 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.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali Love for God is the farthest reach of all stations, the sun of the highest degrees, and there is no station after that of love, except its fruit and its consequences.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali 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.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali He who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali You must convince your heart that whatever Allah has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial for you.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali 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.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother’s milk.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.
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