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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.

Al-Ghazali

Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.
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Heart People Praise Sad Yourself
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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Himself Wisdom Yourself
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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Advice Enough Knowledge People Virtue Wisdom
Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.
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Action Fools Knowledge Philosophy Waste
The corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances.
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Appearance Corruption Religion Word
To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.
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Hate Love Patience Yourself
Each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, since each of them is irreplaceable and once gone, can never be retrieved.
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Breathe Philosophy Worth Yourself
The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.
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Believe Hypocrite Wisdom
The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
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Death Deep Happiness One Liner Philosophy River
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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Exception God Love Result Sun
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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Errors Evil Religious Rule Understand
You must convince your heart that whatever Allah has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial for you.
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Belief God Heart Yourself
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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Freedom God Himself Sorrow Suffering
This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.
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Oneself Philosophy Shadow World
If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?
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Deep Life Preparation Spiritual Yourself
A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people.
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Character Human Hurt Nature People Wisdom
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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Hell Religion Struggle
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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Alone Determination People Truth Wisdom
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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Nature Prayer Religious Wisdom Word
If you see Allah, Mighty and Magnificent, holding back this world from you, frequently trying you with adversity and tribulation, know that you hold a great status with Him. Know that He is dealing with you as He does with His Awliya’ and chosen elite, and is watching over you.
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Adversity Belief Religious Strong War Yourself
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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Eat Hope Laughter Life Lying Walk Wisdom Yourself
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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Body Care Himself Leaving Philosophy Religious Soul Spiritual Time Wisdom
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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Body Creation Divine Forever Greatness Live Mean Men Purpose
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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Death End Wisdom World
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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Forever Life Philosophy Spiritual Wisdom
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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Black Man Wisdom
A man of bad character punishes his own soul.
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Character Men Punishment Soul

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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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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