Occupation: Theologian Birth: 1058 Death: December 19, 1111
You must convince your heart that whatever Allah has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial for you..
Understand that for every rule which I have mentioned from the Quran, the Devil has one to match it, which he puts beside the proper rule to cause er….
Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls..
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 H….
To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate..
Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me..
Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness..
Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves..
Remember it is the heart and not the body, which strives to draw near to God. By heart I do not mean the flesh perceived by the senses, but that secr….
Are you ready to cut off your head and place your foot on it? If so, come; Love awaits you! Love is not grown in a garden, nor sold in the marketplac….
Do not fix hopes on your health, and do not laugh away life. Remember how they walked and now all their joints lie separately, and the tongue with wh….
Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see - Egoism, Arrogance, Conceit, Selfishness, Greed, Lust, Intolerance, Anger, Lying, Cheating, Go….
Work for your terrestrial life in proportion to your location in it, and work for your afterlife in proportion to your eternity in it..
There are two kinds of Riya - Showing off-Ostentation ie pure ostentation and adulterated ostention. In pure ostentation "Riya" a man does a good dee….
The mere physical man is like the ant crawling on the paper, who observes black lettering and attributes its production to the pen and nothing more..
Whatever 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 ac….
Anyone who refuses to marry is shrinking his farmwork, wasting the seed, and leaving idle the appropiate tools created by God; he sins against the pu….
Love for God is the farthest reach of all stations, the sun of the highest degrees, and there is no station after that of love, except its fruit and ….
Whoever passes forty without his virtue overpowering his vice, let him get ready for hellfire. This advice contains enough for people of knowledge..
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 ….
Men have such a good opinion of themselves, of their mental superiority and intellectual depth; they believe themselves so skilled in discerning the ….