Occupation: Theologian Birth: 1058 Death: December 19, 1111
The corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances..
A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people.
The essence of knowledge is to know what obedience and worship are -Abu Hamid al.
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….
This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow..
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..
Men have such a good opinion of themselves, of their mental superiority and intellectual depth; they believe themselves so skilled in discerning the ….
Work for your terrestrial life in proportion to your location in it, and work for your afterlife in proportion to your eternity in it..
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….
Whoever passes forty without his virtue overpowering his vice, let him get ready for hellfire. This advice contains enough for people of knowledge..
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….
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….
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 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 ….
Neglect not your time, nor use it haphazardly; on the contrary you should bring yourself to account. Structure your litanies and other practices duri….
Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited..
In the intricate paths of life when difficulties and hardships confront a man, and the darkness of difficulty and suffering becomes long, it is patie….
People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for reckoning….
If 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 intenti….
Do not dispute with anyone in any matter as far as possible. For in argumentation lies much harm and its evil is greater than its benefit..