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.
AL-GHAZALIPeople 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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Offen love between two people intensifies not because of beauty or some advantage, but because of sheer spiritual affinity.
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Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see – Egoism, Arrogance, Conceit, Selfishness, Greed, Lust, Intolerance, Anger, Lying, Cheating, Gossiping and Slandering. If you can master and destroy them, then will be ready to fight the enemy you can see.
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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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Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.
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He who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world.
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If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?
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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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Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.
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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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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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The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
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You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.
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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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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.
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If the world had two gods, it would surely go to ruin-this is the first premise. Now it is known that it has not gone to ruin-this is the second premise. From these premises the conclusion must of necessity follow, that is, the denial of two gods.
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