You must convince your heart that whatever Allah has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial for you.
AL-GHAZALIIn 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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This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.
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To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.
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Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.
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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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A man of bad character punishes his own soul.
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If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.
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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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Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.
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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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The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.
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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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Offen love between two people intensifies not because of beauty or some advantage, but because of sheer spiritual affinity.
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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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Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.
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Do not dispute with anyone in any matter as far as possible. For in argumentation lies much harm and its evil is greater than its benefit.
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