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.
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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Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.
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If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?
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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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Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.
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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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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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Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.
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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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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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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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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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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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It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother’s milk.
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This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.
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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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