In 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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Al-Ghazali on freedom
Al-Ghazali47 quotes“In 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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Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali 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.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali He who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali You must convince your heart that whatever Allah has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial for you.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali 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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