A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people.
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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Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, “men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned.”
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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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Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.
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Remember it is the heart and not the body, which strives to draw near to God. By heart I do not mean the flesh perceived by the senses, but that secret thing which is sometimes expressed by spirit, and sometimes by soul.
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Whoever passes forty without his virtue overpowering his vice, let him get ready for hellfire. This advice contains enough for people of knowledge.
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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 allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.
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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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Work for your terrestrial life in proportion to your location in it, and work for your afterlife in proportion to your eternity in it.
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Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.
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If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.
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The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
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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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To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.
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Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.
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