Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.
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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Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.
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Half of disbelief in Allah in the world is caused by people who make religion look ugly due to their bad conduct and ignorance.
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Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.
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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.
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Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see – Egoism, Arrogance, Conceit, Selfishness, Greed, Lust, Intolerance, Anger, Lying, Cheating, Gossiping and Slandering. If you can master and destroy them, then will be ready to fight the enemy you can see.
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Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.
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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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He who does not arrive at the Intuition of these Truths by means of Ecstasy knows only the name of Inspiration.
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People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for reckoning the number of idle words they speak.
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If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.
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The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.
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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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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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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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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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