More Quotes by Al-Ghazali
Remember your contemporaries who have passed away and were your age. Remember the honors and fame they earned, the high posts they held, and the beautiful bodies they possessed. Today all of them are turned to dust. They have left orphans and widows behind them, their wealth is being wasted, and their houses turned into ruins. No sign of them is left today, and they lie in dark holes underneath the earth. Picture their faces before your mind's eye and ponder.
Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.
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.
A man of bad character punishes his own soul.
Offen love between two people intensifies not because of beauty or some advantage, but because of sheer spiritual affinity.
Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.
Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.
Each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, since each of them is irreplaceable and once gone, can never be retrieved.
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.
The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.
