The corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances.
AL-GHAZALIOffen love between two people intensifies not because of beauty or some advantage, but because of sheer spiritual affinity.
More Al-Ghazali Quotes
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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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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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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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Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, “men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned.”
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You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.
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It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother’s milk.
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You must convince your heart that whatever Allah has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial for you.
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Whoever determines the truth from people alone will remain lost in the plains of bewilderment. Rather, know the truth, and you will know its people.
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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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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.
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Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.
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If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?
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A man of bad character punishes his own soul.
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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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The soul should take care of the body, just as the pilgrim on his way to Makkah takes care of his camel; but if the pilgrim spends his whole time in feeding and adorning his camel, the caravan will leave him behind, and he will perish in the desert.
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