It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother’s milk.
AL-GHAZALIEach of your breaths is a priceless jewel, since each of them is irreplaceable and once gone, can never be retrieved.
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To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.
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The corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances.
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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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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.
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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 mere physical man is like the ant crawling on the paper, who observes black lettering and attributes its production to the pen and nothing more.
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If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?
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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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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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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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The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.
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A man of bad character punishes his own soul.
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You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.
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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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Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, “men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned.”
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