When you have a bad suspicion about a Muslim in your heart, you should increase your consideration toward him and make dua for him. This way you will infuriate Satan and will be able to drive him away. Because of this, Satan will be reluctant to put evil thoughts into your heart, afraid that you would increase your consideration towards your brother and will make dua for him again.
Al-GhazaliKnowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.
Al-GhazaliOffen love between two people intensifies not because of beauty or some advantage, but because of sheer spiritual affinity.
Al-GhazaliNo 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.
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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