Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.
AL-GHAZALIEach of your breaths is a priceless jewel, since each of them is irreplaceable and once gone, can never be retrieved.
More Al-Ghazali Quotes
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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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Understand that for every rule which I have mentioned from the Quran, the Devil has one to match it, which he puts beside the proper rule to cause error.
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Whoever passes forty without his virtue overpowering his vice, let him get ready for hellfire. This advice contains enough for people of knowledge.
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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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A man of bad character punishes his own soul.
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The soul should take care of the body, just as the pilgrim on his way to Makkah takes care of his camel; but if the pilgrim spends his whole time in feeding and adorning his camel, the caravan will leave him behind, and he will perish in the desert.
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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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A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people.
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Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.
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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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The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.
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The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
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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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It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother’s milk.
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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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