What is destined will reach you, even if it be beneath two mountains. To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.ġ. That is to say: what you at first burden the soul with becomes nature to it in the end.ĩ. Verily the soul becomes accustomed to what you accustom it to.
Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people nor be saddened by their condemnation.Ĩ. One departs from the station of patience through anxiety, exaggeration of complaint, making an exhibition of sorrow, possessions and food.ħ. 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.Ħ. If we had perfect power to determine our destinies, and perfect vision to see the future and know what is best for us, we would choose exactly the fate that Allah has chosen for us.ĥ. Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, sometimes it helps me and sometimes it opposes me.Ĥ. It is the states of the heart, the place of our intentions, that holds us accountable.ģ. You must convince your heart that whatever God has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial for you.Ģ. As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good I was actually being re-directed to something better. Half of disbelief in God in the world is caused by people who made religion look ugly due to their bad conduct and ignorance.ġ. So tomorrow this person might be of the Ones Drawn Nigh, and I of the distant ones!ħ. As for me, Allah could cause me to go astray, so that I become of the unbelievers, and my life could be sealed with the worst of deeds.
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If you see an unbeliever, say, “I don’t know, maybe he will become a Muslim, and his life will be sealed with the best of deeds, and for his Islam he will emerge free of sin, as a strand of hair is gently removed from dough. Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.Ħ. The first stage of sincerity is that your private and public state should be the same.ĥ. We are creatures that love to blame the external, not realizing that the problem is usually internal.Ĥ.
If you can master and destroy them, then you will be ready to fight the enemy you can see.ģ. Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see egoism, arrogance, conceit, selfishness, greed, lust, intolerance, anger, lying, cheating, gossiping and slandering. The hypocrite looks for faults the believer looks for excuses.Ģ. Soft words soften the hearts that are harder than rock, harsh words harden hearts that are softer than silk.ġ. The tongue is very small and light but it can take you to the greatest heights and it can put you in the lowest depths.Ĥ. Shaikh Muhammad Al-Ghazali was asked, “What is the ruling of the one who left prayer?” He replied, “The ruling is for you to take them along with you to the mosque.” Be a caller, not a judge.ģ. Advice is easy, what is difficult is accepting it, for it is bitter in taste.Ģ. The corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances.ġ. Dear seeker, you will not be able to rise to carry out the commands of Allah until you monitor your heart and limbs in every moment and every breath.ĥ. Following desire he is brought down to the level of beasts.Ĥ.
Using his powers to attain to knowledge can raise him up to the ranks of Angels. Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil by learning the potential becomes actual.ģ. Knowledge without action is vanity, and action without knowledge is insanity.Ģ. A lot of other quotes can be found in the open letter to his students entitled, My dear Beloved Son/Daughter, taken from the book YaAyyuhalwalad.īelow are 30 quotes of Imam Ghazali categorized into different sections, it includes knowledge, self-reflection, good character and others.ġ. Imam Ghazali’s quotes can be found in many of his great works, one of the greatest of all time is the Ihyaulum al-din (Revival of the Religious Sciences).
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