Dear friend, Your heart is a polished mirror. You must wipe it dean of the veil of dust that has gathered upon it, because it is destined to reflect the light of divine secrets.
AL-GHAZALIWhoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.
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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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This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.
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If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?
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You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.
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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 says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.
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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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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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Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, “men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned.”
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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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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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Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.
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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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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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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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A man of bad character punishes his own soul.
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To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.
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Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.
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Man’s nature is made up of four elements, which produce in him four attributes, namely, the beastly, the brutal, the satanic, and the divine. In man there is something of the pig, the dog, the devil, and the saint.
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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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Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.
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Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.
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Know, O beloved, that man was not created in jest or at random, but marvelously made and for some great end. Although he is not form everlasting, yet he lives for ever; and though his body is mean and earthly, yet his spirit is lofty and divine.
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Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.
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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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The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.
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