Whoever passes forty without his virtue overpowering his vice, let him get ready for hellfire. This advice contains enough for people of knowledge.
Al-GhazaliThe 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.
Al-GhazaliThis visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.
Al-GhazaliWhoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.
Al-GhazaliHe who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world.
Al-GhazaliIf 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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