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Al-Ghazali Biography

Al-Ghazali (/ˈɡɑːzˌɑːli/; full name Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazālī أبو حامد محمد بن محمد الغزالي; latinized Algazelus or Algazel, c. 1058 – 19 December 1111) was one of the most prominent and influential philosophers, theologians, jurists, and mystics of Sunni Islam of Persian origin.

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If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?

Afterlife, Ifs, Prepare

The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.

Die, Dies, Drop, Happiness, River, Rivers

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.

Islamic, Men, Observes, Physical, Production, Wisdom

Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.

Bird, Birds, Claim, Claims, Says, Song

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.

Wisdom, Disappointment, Islamic, Desperation, Suffering, Becomes

He who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world.

Fasting, Head, Invisible, Nosebag, See, World

Half of disbelief in Allah in the world is caused by people who make religion look ugly due to their bad conduct and ignorance

Ignorance, People, Looks, Caused, Conduct

Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.

Kings, Desire, Slave, Patience, Slaves

Whoever passes forty without his virtue overpowering his vice, let him get ready for hellfire. This advice contains enough for people of knowledge.

Enough, Islamic, Overpowering, People, Vice, Wisdom

A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people

Include, Islamic, Self, Temper, Tendencies, Wisdom

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.

Affliction, Hold, Sorrow, Suffering, Toward, Wholly

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

Body, Jest, Marvelously, Mean, Men

Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.

Humans, Knowledge, Soil, Soul

The essence of knowledge is to know what obedience and worship are -Abu Hamid al

Abu, Als, Essence, Hamid, Islamic, Worship

Each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, since each of them is irreplaceable and once gone, can never be retrieved.

Breaths, Gone, Irreplaceable, Islamic, Jewel, Jewels

No one who possesses snow would find any hardship in exchanging it for jewels and pearls. This world is like snow exposed to sun, which continues to melt until it disappears altogether, while the next life is like a precious stone that never passes away.

Altogether, Islamic, Jewels, Like, Precious, Wisdom

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.

Cause, Devil, Errors, Evil, Quran, Rule

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.

Believe, Forbidden, Men, Safety, Writing, Writings

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.

God, Heart, Mean, Perceived, Soul, Strives

To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.

Hate, Islamic, Love, Love You, Patient

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