Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.
AL-GHAZALIKnowledge 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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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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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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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.
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You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.
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A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people.
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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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Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.
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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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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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If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.
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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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Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.
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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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