A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people.
AL-GHAZALIKnowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.
More Al-Ghazali Quotes
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If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?
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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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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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Offen love between two people intensifies not because of beauty or some advantage, but because of sheer spiritual affinity.
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The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.
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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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Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.
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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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To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.
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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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You must convince your heart that whatever Allah has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial for you.
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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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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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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 allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.
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