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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.

Al-Ghazali

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Al-Ghazali
Born: 1058
Born: January 1
Autobiographer
Mutakallim
Philosopher
Theologian
Ghazzoliĭ
Muḣammad ibn Muḣammad ibn Aḣmad Abu Ḣomid at-Tusiĭ
Al-Ghazzali
Abu Hamid al-Ghazālī
Algazelus
Algazel
Abu Hamid al-Ghazali
Abu Mohammed al-Ghazali
Al-Gonzzali
Ghonzzali
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Terrestrial
Afterlife
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Islamic
Proportion
Eternity
Wisdom
Work

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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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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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Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.
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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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If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.
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He who does not arrive at the Intuition of these Truths by means of Ecstasy knows only the name of Inspiration.
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If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?
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Understand that for every rule which I have mentioned from the Quran, the Devil has one to match it, which he puts beside the proper rule to cause error.
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Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.
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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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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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A man of bad character punishes his own soul.
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If the world had two gods, it would surely go to ruin-this is the first premise. Now it is known that it has not gone to ruin-this is the second premise. From these premises the conclusion must of necessity follow, that is, the denial of two gods.
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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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To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.
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He who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world.
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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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It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother's milk.
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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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