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.
More Al-Ghazali Quotes
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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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Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.
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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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Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, “men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned.”
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A man of bad character punishes his own soul.
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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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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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Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.
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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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You must convince your heart that whatever Allah has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial for you.
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If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.
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If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?
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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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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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