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.
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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If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.
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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 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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A man of bad character punishes his own soul.
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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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You must convince your heart that whatever Allah has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial for you.
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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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The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
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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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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 corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances.
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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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It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother’s milk.
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Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.
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