To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.
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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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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This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.
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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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Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.
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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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Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.
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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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Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.
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The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
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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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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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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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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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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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