Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.
AL-GHAZALIKnowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.
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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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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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Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, “men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned.”
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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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You must convince your heart that whatever Allah has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial for you.
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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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You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.
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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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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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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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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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It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother’s milk.
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A man of bad character punishes his own soul.
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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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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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