Al-Ghazali Quotes - Page 2

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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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  Shadow, World, Invisible

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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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  Wisdom, Islamic, People

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• If the first inward thought is not warded off, it will generate a desire, then the desire will generate a wish, and the wish will generate an intention, and the intention will generate the action, and the action will result in ruin and divine wrath. So evil must be cut off at its root, which is when it is simply a thought that crosses the mind, from which all the other things follow on.

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  Wisdom, Islamic, Cutting

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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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  Wisdom, Islamic, Self

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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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  Soul, Soil, Humans

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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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  Wisdom, Prayer, Islamic

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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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  Wisdom, Islamic, Busy

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• If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.

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  Inspirational, Wisdom, Islamic

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• You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.

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  Wisdom, Islamic, Ships

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• Man's nature is made up of four elements, which produce in him four attributes, namely, the beastly, the brutal, the satanic, and the divine. In man there is something of the pig, the dog, the devil, and the saint.

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  Dog, Men, Pigs

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• Neglect not your time, nor use it haphazardly; on the contrary you should bring yourself to account. Structure your litanies and other practices during each day and night. This is how to bring about the spiritual blessing (baraka) in each period. If each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, Be not like the deceived fools who are joyous because each day their wealth increases while their life grows ever shorter.

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  Spiritual, Wisdom, Islamic

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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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  Suffering, Sorrow, Affliction

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• When you have a bad suspicion about a Muslim in your heart, you should increase your consideration toward him and make dua for him. This way you will infuriate Satan and will be able to drive him away. Because of this, Satan will be reluctant to put evil thoughts into your heart, afraid that you would increase your consideration towards your brother and will make dua for him again.

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  Brother, Heart, Evil

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• Remember it is the heart and not the body, which strives to draw near to God. By heart I do not mean the flesh perceived by the senses, but that secret thing which is sometimes expressed by spirit, and sometimes by soul.

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  Heart, Mean, Soul

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• O youth.......be assured that knowledge alone does not strengthen the hand......Though a man read a hundred thousand scientific questions and understood them or learned them, but did not work with them---They do not benefit him except by working.....Knowledge is the tree, and working is its fruit; and though you studied a hundred years and assembled a thousand books, you would not be prepared for the mercy of Allah the Exalted except by working.

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  Book, Men, Hands

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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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  Wisdom, Islamic, Afterlife

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• Are you ready to cut off your head and place your foot on it? If so, come; Love awaits you! Love is not grown in a garden, nor sold in the marketplace; whether you are a king or a servant, the price is your head, and nothing less. Yes, the cost of the elixir of love is your head! Do you hesitate? 0 miser, It is cheap at that price!

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  Love, Kings, Cutting

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• In the intricate paths of life when difficulties and hardships confront a man, and the darkness of difficulty and suffering becomes long, it is patience only that acts like a light for a Muslim, that keeps him safe from wandering here and there, and saves him from the muddy marsh of disappointment, desperation and frustration.

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  Wisdom, Disappointment, Islamic

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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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  Wisdom, Islamic, Men

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• Anyone who refuses to marry is shrinking his farmwork, wasting the seed, and leaving idle the appropiate tools created by God; he sins against the purpose of creation and wisdom visible in the evidence of natural structure. The man who refuses to marry has severed a chain of being, a previously unbroken chain linking his own existence to that of Adam.

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  Wisdom, Islamic, Men

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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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  Mean, Men, Body

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• There are two kinds of Riya - Showing off-Ostentation ie pure ostentation and adulterated ostention. In pure ostentation "Riya" a man does a good deed only for worldly benefit. In Adulterated ostentation, a man does a good deed with the intention of reaping the benefits of the world as well as of the Hereafter.

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  Wisdom, Islamic, Men

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• Men have such a good opinion of themselves, of their mental superiority and intellectual depth; they believe themselves so skilled in discerning the true from the false, the path of safety from those of error, that they should be forbidden as much as possible the perusal of philosophic writings.

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  Believe, Writing, Men

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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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  Wisdom, Lying, Islamic

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• 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.

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  Wisdom, Islamic, Soul

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