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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.

Al-Ghazali

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.
AL-GHAZALI

Evil Greatness Harmful Lie Lying Possible Wisdom
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.
AL-GHAZALI

Body Creation Divine Forever Greatness Live Mean Men Purpose
Whoever passes forty without his virtue overpowering his vice, let him get ready for hellfire. This advice contains enough for people of knowledge.
AL-GHAZALI

Advice Enough Knowledge People Virtue Wisdom
The soul should take care of the body, just as the pilgrim on his way to Makkah takes care of his camel; but if the pilgrim spends his whole time in feeding and adorning his camel, the caravan will leave him behind, and he will perish in the desert.
AL-GHAZALI

Body Care Himself Leaving Philosophy Religious Soul Spiritual Time Wisdom
To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.
AL-GHAZALI

Hate Love Patience Yourself
Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.
AL-GHAZALI

Deal Difficult Help Myself Oppression Soul
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.
AL-GHAZALI

Exception God Love Result Sun
You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.
AL-GHAZALI

Lost Wisdom
If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?
AL-GHAZALI

Deep Life Preparation Spiritual Yourself
Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.
AL-GHAZALI

Existence Human Knowledge Potential Soul
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.
AL-GHAZALI

Hell Religion Struggle
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.
AL-GHAZALI

Nature Prayer Religious Wisdom Word
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.
AL-GHAZALI

Eat Hope Laughter Life Lying Walk Wisdom Yourself
Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, “men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned.”
AL-GHAZALI

Change Character Deep Learning Man Mindset Money Philosophy Spiritual Wise
This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.
AL-GHAZALI

Oneself Philosophy Shadow World
Each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, since each of them is irreplaceable and once gone, can never be retrieved.
AL-GHAZALI

Breathe Philosophy Worth Yourself

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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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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