More Quotes by Al-Ghazali
Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, "men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned
Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.
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.
You must convince your heart that whatever Allah has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial for you.
The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.
This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.
Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.
A man of bad character punishes his own soul.
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.
Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.
