Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, “men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned.”
AL-GHAZALIKnowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.
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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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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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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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He who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world.
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He who does not arrive at the Intuition of these Truths by means of Ecstasy knows only the name of Inspiration.
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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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Know, O beloved, that man was not created in jest or at random, but marvelously made and for some great end. Although he is not form everlasting, yet he lives for ever; and though his body is mean and earthly, yet his spirit is lofty and divine.
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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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It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother’s milk.
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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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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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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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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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A man of bad character punishes his own soul.
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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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Knowledge 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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If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.
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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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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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Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.
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If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?
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To completely trust in Allah is to be like a child who knows deeply that even if he does not call for the mother, the mother is totally aware of his condition and is looking after him.
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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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The corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances.
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