Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.
AL-GHAZALINo 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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You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.
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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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Do not dispute with anyone in any matter as far as possible. For in argumentation lies much harm and its evil is greater than its benefit.
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It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother’s milk.
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The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
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Remember it is the heart and not the body, which strives to draw near to God. By heart I do not mean the flesh perceived by the senses, but that secret thing which is sometimes expressed by spirit, and sometimes by soul.
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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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The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.
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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 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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Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, “men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned.”
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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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Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.
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Dear friend, Your heart is a polished mirror. You must wipe it dean of the veil of dust that has gathered upon it, because it is destined to reflect the light of divine secrets.
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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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