Al-Ghazali Professions : Theologian Born : 1058 Died : December 19, 1111 Browse All Authors Top 60 quotes by Al-Ghazali The corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances. Al-Ghazali mere corruption appearance This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow. Al-Ghazali invisible shadow world 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. Al-Ghazali uphill-climbs islamic struggle If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so? Al-Ghazali afterlife ifs 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. Al-Ghazali dog pigs men A man of bad character punishes his own soul. Al-Ghazali soul character men 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. Al-Ghazali islamic wisdom lying The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses. Al-Ghazali islamic hypocrite wisdom Each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, since each of them is irreplaceable and once gone, can never be retrieved. Al-Ghazali islamic jewels gone Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual. Al-Ghazali soil humans soul Are you ready to cut off your head and place your foot on it? If so, come; Love awaits you! Love is not grown in a garden, nor sold in the marketplace; whether you are a king or a servant, the price is your head, and nothing less. Yes, the cost of the elixir of love is your head! Do you hesitate? 0 miser, It is cheap at that price! Al-Ghazali cutting kings love You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck. Al-Ghazali ships islamic 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. Al-Ghazali affliction sorrow suffering 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. Al-Ghazali islamic wisdom busy 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. Al-Ghazali islamic wisdom prayer A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people Al-Ghazali islamic wisdom self O youth.......be assured that knowledge alone does not strengthen the hand......Though a man read a hundred thousand scientific questions and understood them or learned them, but did not work with them---They do not benefit him except by working.....Knowledge is the tree, and working is its fruit; and though you studied a hundred years and assembled a thousand books, you would not be prepared for the mercy of Allah the Exalted except by working. Al-Ghazali men book hands Whoever passes forty without his virtue overpowering his vice, let him get ready for hellfire. This advice contains enough for people of knowledge. Al-Ghazali islamic wisdom people 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. Al-Ghazali soul heart mean Anyone who refuses to marry is shrinking his farmwork, wasting the seed, and leaving idle the appropiate tools created by God; he sins against the purpose of creation and wisdom visible in the evidence of natural structure. The man who refuses to marry has severed a chain of being, a previously unbroken chain linking his own existence to that of Adam. Al-Ghazali islamic wisdom men Similar Authors Avery Dulles theologian Augustus Hopkins Strong theologian Andrew Linzey theologian Alister E. McGrath theologian Albert Schweitzer theologian Albert Barnes theologian All Authors
