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.
AL-GHAZALIOffen love between two people intensifies not because of beauty or some advantage, but because of sheer spiritual affinity.
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Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.
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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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Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.
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Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.
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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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Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.
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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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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 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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Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.
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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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No one who possesses snow would find any hardship in exchanging it for jewels and pearls. This world is like snow exposed to sun, which continues to melt until it disappears altogether, while the next life is like a precious stone that never passes away.
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You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.
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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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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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