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.

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

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Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.

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

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Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.

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Offen love between two people intensifies not because of beauty or some advantage, but because of sheer spiritual affinity.

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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.

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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.

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You must convince your heart that whatever Allah has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial for you.

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