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.
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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A man of bad character punishes his own soul.
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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.
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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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The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.
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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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To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.
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It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother’s milk.
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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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Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.
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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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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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Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.
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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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Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.
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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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