Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.
AL-GHAZALIKnowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.
More Al-Ghazali Quotes
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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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The corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances.
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Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.
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He who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world.
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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 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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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.
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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.
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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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The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.
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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.
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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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Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, “men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned.”
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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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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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