Quotes from Al-Ghazali

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

Love for God is the farthest reach of all stations, the sun of the highest degrees, and there is no station after that of love, except its fruit and its consequences.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, "men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned"

Only that which cannot be lost in a shipwreck is yours.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.

If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.

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

You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.

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

Whoever determines the truth from people alone will remain lost in the plains of bewilderment. Rather, know the truth, and you will know its people.

Do not fix hopes on your health, and do not laugh away life. Remember how they walked and now all their joints lie separately, and the tongue with which they talked lightly is eaten away by the worms

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.