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-GHAZALIUnderstand 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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Do not dispute with anyone in any matter as far as possible. For in argumentation lies much harm and its evil is greater than its benefit.
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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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Each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, since each of them is irreplaceable and once gone, can never be retrieved.
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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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To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.
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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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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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Offen love between two people intensifies not because of beauty or some advantage, but because of sheer spiritual affinity.
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The way to paradise is an uphill climb whereas hell is downhill. Hence, there is a struggle to get to paradise and not to hell.
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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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Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.
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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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To completely trust in Allah is to be like a child who knows deeply that even if he does not call for the mother, the mother is totally aware of his condition and is looking after him.
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A man of bad character punishes his own soul.
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