04/12/2020
𖧹𖧹𖧹 𝗜𝗺𝗮𝗮𝗺 𝗔𝗹 𝗚𝗵𝗮𝘇𝗮𝗹𝗶'𝘀 30 𝗤𝘂𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗦𝘂𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𖧹𖧹𖧹
Imam Al-Ghazali was a medieval Muslim theologian, jurist, philosopher, and mystic of Persian origin.
𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗶𝗲𝗱(1058 –1111)c
Most Muslims consider him to be a 𝐌𝐮𝐣𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐝 , a renewer of the faith who, according to the prophetic hadith, appears once every century to restore the faith of the ummah ("the Islamic Community").His works were so highly acclaimed by his contemporaries that al-Ghazali was awarded🎖 the honorific title "𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐟 𝐨𝐟 𝐈𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐦" (𝐇𝐮𝐣𝐣𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐥-𝐈𝐬𝐥𝐚̄𝐦).
Al-Ghazali believed that the Islamic spiritual tradition had become moribund and that the spiritual sciences taught by the first generation of Muslims had been forgotten. That resulted in his writing his magnum opus entitled 𝑰𝒉𝒚𝒂̄’ ‘𝒖𝒍𝒖̄𝒎 𝒂𝒅-𝒅𝒊̄𝒏 ("The Revival of the Religious Sciences"). Among his other work📗, the 𝑻𝒂𝒉𝒂̄𝒇𝒖𝒕 𝒂𝒍-𝑭𝒂𝒍𝒂̄𝒔𝒊𝒇𝒂 ("Incoherence of the Philosophers") is a significant landmark in the history of philosophy, as it advances the critique of Aristotelian science developed later in 14th-century Europe.
✏𝑴𝒂𝒚 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒒𝒖𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒐 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒂 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔.
1. “To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.” Imam Al-Ghazali
2. “A man of bad character punishes his own soul.” Imam Al-Ghazali
3. “The real friend is the one who, when you ask him to follow you, doesn’t ask where?” Imam Al-Ghazali
4. “For good health control your diet.” Imam Al-Ghazali
5. “Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.” Imam Al-Ghazali
6. “The hypocrite looks for faults, the believer looks for excuses.” Imam Al-Ghazali
7. “Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.” Imam Al-Ghazali
8. “The tongue is very small and light but it can take you to the greatest heights and it can put you in the lowest depths.” Imam Al-Ghazali
9. “Often love between two people intensifies not because of beauty or some advantage, but because of sheer spiritual affinity.” Imam Al-Ghazali
10. “All of a man’s happiness is in his being the master of his ego, while all his suffering is in his ego being his master.” Imam Al-Ghazali
11. “As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good; I was actually being redirected to something better. You must convince your heart that whatever God has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial to you.” Imam Al-Ghazali
12. “When God loves a slave, He increases people’s need for him.” Imam Al-Ghazali
13. “Live as long as you want, but you must die; love whatever you want, but you will become separated from it; and do what you want, but you will be repaid for it.” Imam Al-Ghazali
14. “Soft words soften the hearts that are harder than rock, harsh words harden hearts that are softer than silk.” Imam Al-Ghazali
15. “Desire makes slaves out of kings, and patience makes kings out of slaves.” Imam Al-Ghazali
16. “Adapt a gentle tone when speaking, for verily the tone at times, has a greater impact than the speech.” Imam Al-Ghazali
17. “Four traits lift a person to the highest ranks, even if their works and knowledge are little: forbearance, humility, generosity, and good character. This is the perfection of faith.” Imam Al-Ghazali
18. “The reward of patience in the face of misfortune is more than what has been lost.” Imam Al-Ghazali
19. “Take every effort to guard your tongue, as it is the strongest cause for your destruction.” Imam Al-Ghazali
20. “What is destined will reach you, even if be beneath two mountains. What is not destined will not reach you, even if it be between your two lips.” Imam Al-Ghazali
21. “Whosoever complains of the bad character of another man has revealed the badness of his own character.” Imam Al-Ghazali
22. “Teach what you know to him who does not know, and learn from him who knows what you do not know. If you would do this you would learn what you have not known and would retain what you have already known.” Imam Al-Ghazali
23. “Neglect not your time, nor use it haphazardly; on the contrary, you should bring yourself to account. Structure your litanies and other practices during each day and night. This is how to bring about spiritual blessing in each period. If each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, be not like the deceived fools who are joyous because each day their wealth increases while their life grows ever shorter.” Imam Al-Ghazali
24. “An honorable person won’t tell people how great they are, people will experience their greatness just by being with them.” Imam Al-Ghazali
25. “Do not think that death is death. Nay! It is life.” Imam Al-Ghazali
26. “The way to Paradise is an uphill climb, whereas Hell is downhill. Hence, there is a struggle to Paradise and not to Hell.” Imam Al-Ghazali
27. “The final purpose of self discipline is to find one’s heart constantly in the presence of God.” Imam Al-Ghazali
28. “Purifying the soul is serious: the hereafter is ahead, the world is behind, death is near, the journey is far and the provisions are light.” Imam Al-Ghazali
29. “In God, there is no sorrow or suffering or affliction. If you want to be free of all affliction and suffering, hold fast to God, and turn wholly to Him, and to no one else.” Imam Al-Ghazali
30. “Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.” Imam Al-Ghazali
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