This 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-GhazaliWhatever the situation may be, in the recollection of death there is reward and merit. For even the man engrossed in the world benefits from it by acquiring an aversion to this world, since it spoils his contentment and the fullness of his pleasure; and everything which spoils for man his pleasures and his appetites is one of the means of deliverance.
Al-Ghazali