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.
AL-GHAZALIKnowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.
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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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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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Half of disbelief in Allah in the world is caused by people who make religion look ugly due to their bad conduct and ignorance.
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The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.
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You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.
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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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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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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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Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.
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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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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 you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?
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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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The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
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