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.
AL-GHAZALIKnowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.
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The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.
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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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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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The corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances.
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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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Offen love between two people intensifies not because of beauty or some advantage, but because of sheer spiritual affinity.
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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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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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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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Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, “men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned.”
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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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You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.
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Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.
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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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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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