To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.
AL-GHAZALIWhoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.
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The way to paradise is an uphill climb whereas hell is downhill. Hence, there is a struggle to get to paradise and not to hell.
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The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
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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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In God, there is no sorrow or suffering or affliction. If you want to be free of all affliction and suffering, hold fast to God, and turn wholly to Him, and to no one else. Indeed, all your suffering comes from this: that you do not turn toward God and no one else.
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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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It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother’s milk.
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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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Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, “men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned.”
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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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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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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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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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He who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world.
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The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.
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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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