You must convince your heart that whatever Allah has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial for you.
AL-GHAZALIDear 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.
More Al-Ghazali Quotes
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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 corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances.
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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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You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.
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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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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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A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people.
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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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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 says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.
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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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If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.
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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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To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.
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Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.
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