If you see Allah, Mighty and Magnificent, holding back this world from you, frequently trying you with adversity and tribulation, know that you hold a great status with Him. Know that He is dealing with you as He does with His Awliya’ and chosen elite, and is watching over you.
AL-GHAZALIHalf 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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Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, “men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned.”
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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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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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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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It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother’s milk.
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You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.
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The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
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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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A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people.
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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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He who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world.
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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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Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.
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If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?
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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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