Al-Ghazali
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April 1
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April 1
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Neglect not your time, nor use it haphazardly; on the contrary you should bring yourself to account. Structure your litanies and other practices during each day and night. This is how to bring about the spiritual blessing (baraka) in each period. If each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, Be not like the deceived fools who are joyous because each day their wealth increases while their life grows ever shorter.
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April 2
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If the first inward thought is not warded off, it will generate a desire, then the desire will generate a wish, and the wish will generate an intention, and the intention will generate the action, and the action will result in ruin and divine wrath. So evil must be cut off at its root, which is when it is simply a thought that crosses the mind, from which all the other things follow on.
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April 3
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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.
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April 4
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Each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, since each of them is irreplaceable and once gone, can never be retrieved.
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April 5
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Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.
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April 6
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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.
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April 7
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A man of bad character punishes his own soul.
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April 8
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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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April 9
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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.
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April 10
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In the intricate paths of life when difficulties and hardships confront a man, and the darkness of difficulty and suffering becomes long, it is patience only that acts like a light for a Muslim, that keeps him safe from wandering here and there, and saves him from the muddy marsh of disappointment, desperation and frustration.
The soul should take care of the body, just as the pilgrim on his way to Makkah takes care of his camel; but if the pilgrim spends his whole time in feeding and adorning his camel, the caravan will leave him behind, and he will perish in the desert.
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April 13
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Work for your terrestrial life in proportion to your location in it, and work for your afterlife in proportion to your eternity in it.
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April 15
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No one who possesses snow would find any hardship in exchanging it for jewels and pearls. This world is like snow exposed to sun, which continues to melt until it disappears altogether, while the next life is like a precious stone that never passes away.
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