Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.
AL-GHAZALITo 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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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 happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
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No one who possesses snow would find any hardship in exchanging it for jewels and pearls. This world is like snow exposed to sun, which continues to melt until it disappears altogether, while the next life is like a precious stone that never passes away.
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Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.
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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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A man of bad character punishes his own soul.
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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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Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.
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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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Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.
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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.
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You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.
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Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.
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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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To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.
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