Al-Ghazali Quotes

If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?

He who does not arrive at the Intuition of these Truths by means of Ecstasy knows only the name of Inspiration.

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.

A man of bad character punishes his own soul.

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

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

If the world had two gods, it would surely go to ruin-this is the first premise. Now it is known that it has not gone to ruin-this is the second premise. From these premises the conclusion must of necessity follow, that is, the denial of two gods.

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

O youth.......be assured that knowledge alone does not strengthen the hand......Though a man read a hundred thousand scientific questions and understood them or learned them, but did not work with them---They do not benefit him except by working.....Knowledge is the tree, and working is its fruit; and though you studied a hundred years and assembled a thousand books, you would not be prepared for the mercy of Allah the Exalted except by working.