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.
AL-GHAZALI
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Al-Ghazali on death
“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.”
More Al-Ghazali quotes
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.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see – Egoism, Arrogance, Conceit, Selfishness, Greed, Lust, Intolerance, Anger, Lying, Cheating, Gossiping and Slandering. If you can master and destroy them, then will be ready to fight the enemy you can see.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali 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.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali Half of disbelief in Allah in the world is caused by people who make religion look ugly due to their bad conduct and ignorance.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali 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.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali He who does not arrive at the Intuition of these Truths by means of Ecstasy knows only the name of Inspiration.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali Offen love between two people intensifies not because of beauty or some advantage, but because of sheer spiritual affinity.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali 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.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali 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.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali 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.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali 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.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali He who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali You must convince your heart that whatever Allah has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial for you.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
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