Al
Ghazzali Quotes
Do not buy the enmity of
one man for the love of a thousand men.
Illness
itself is one of those forms
of experience by which one arrives at the knowledge of God ...
It
is,
so to speak, the cord of love by which God draws to Himself the
saints.
Arrogance and conceit in a
person may be recognized by three signs:
- When alone does he feel gloomy,
and in company feel happy?
- When people praise
him, does he
perform more worship?
- When they speak badly of
him, does he
perform very little worship?
Only
that which cannot be
lost in a shipwreck is yours.
in Llewellyan Vaughan-Lee:
Travelling the Path of Love" Inverness, CA: Godlen Sufi Center, 1995,
p. 109
…a man should say
to his soul every morning, "God has given thee twenty-four treasures;
take heed lest thou lose anyone of them, for thou wilt not be able to
endure the regret that will follow such loss."
Abu
Hamid Al-Ghazzali, The Alchemy of Happiness, Ch. 6: Concerning
Self-Examination and the Recollection of God
Man's
nature is made up of four elements, which produce in him four
attributes, namely, the beastly, the brutal, the satanic, and the
divine. In man there is something of the pig, the dog, the devil, and
the saint.
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