Al-Ghazali Quotes
Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.
Offen love between two people intensifies not because of beauty or some advantage, but because of sheer spiritual affinity.
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.
Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.
Half of disbelief in Allah in the world is caused by people who make religion look ugly due to their bad conduct and ignorance
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.
You must convince your heart that whatever Allah has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial for you.
To completely trust in Allah is to be like a child who knows deeply that even if he does not call for the mother, the mother is totally aware of his condition and is looking after him.
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.
Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, "men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned"
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.
This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.
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.
If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.
A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people
Each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, since each of them is irreplaceable and once gone, can never be retrieved.
Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.
Whoever passes forty without his virtue overpowering his vice, let him get ready for hellfire. This advice contains enough for people of knowledge.
Whoever determines the truth from people alone will remain lost in the plains of bewilderment. Rather, know the truth, and you will know its people.
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
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.
He who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world.
Work for your terrestrial life in proportion to your location in it, and work for your afterlife in proportion to your eternity in it.
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.
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.
He who does not arrive at the Intuition of these Truths by means of Ecstasy knows only the name of Inspiration.