Al-Ghazali Quotes

Worship in Islam is not only observance of the prescribed worship rites –Prayer, Almsgiving, Fasting, Pilgrimage –but living one’s entire life in obedience to God, doing His will and seeking His pleasure, exactly in the way He has laid down.

Another sign of the learned man of the hereafter is that he keeps himself distant from the ruling authorities and avoids their company, because this world is sweet, ever-new and its bridle is in their hands. He who comes near them is not free from their pleasures and harms. They are mostly unjust and do not obey the advices of the learned men. The learned man who frequents them will look to their grandeurs and then think God's gift upon him as insignificant. To keep company with the rulers is the key to evils.

How can even the lowest mind, if he reflects at all the marvels of this earth and sky, the brilliant fashioning of plants and animals, remain blind to the fact that this wonderful world with its settled order must have a maker to design, determine and direct it?

placing the Ka’ba between my brows, the Bridgeover-Hell beneath my feet, Paradise to my right and Hell to my left, and the Angel of Death behind me, thinking all the while that this is my final Prayer. Then I stand between hope and fear.

الحاذق في صناعة واحدة لیس یلزم أن یكون حاذقاً في كل صناعة ، فلا یلزم أن یكون الحاذق في الفقه والكلام حاذقاً في الطب ، ولا أن یكون الجاهل بالعقلیات جاهلاً بالنحو ، بل لكل صناعة أهل بلغوا فیها [ رتبة ] البراعةوالسبق. وإن كان الحمق والجهل ( قد ) یلزمهم في غیرها. فكلام الأوائل في الریاضیات برهاني ، وفي الإلهیات تخمیني ؛ لا یعرف ذلك إلا من جرّبه وخاض فیه.

ليس فى الإمكان أبدع مما كان

The first step to self-knowledge is to know that thou art composed of an outward shape, called the body, and an inward entity called the heart, or soul.

لو سكت من لا يدري، لقلّ الخلاف بين الخَلق

Firstly, there are some who, failing to find God by observation, conclude that there is no God and that this world of wonders made itself, or existed from everlasting. They are like a man who, seeing a beautifully written letter, should suppose that It had written itself without a writer, or had always existed. People in this state of mind are so far gone in error that it is of little use to argue with them. Such are some of the physicists and astronomers to whom we referred above. Some,

الوعظ زكاة نصابه الاتعاظ ، فمن لا نصاب له كيف يخرج الزكاة؟! وفاقد الثوب كيف يستر غيره؟! ومتى يستقيم الظل والعود أعوج؟!

[K]nowledge that is not Infallible is not certain knowledge.

فويل للجاهل حيث لم يتعلم مرةً واحدة،
وويل للعالم حيث لم يَعمل بما علِم ألفَ مرة.
#اللهم_إنى_أعوذ_بك_من_علم_لاينفع.

Therefore if a man has in his heart that love to God which the Law enjoins, it is perfectly lawful, nay, laudable in him to take part in exercises which promote it.

وقد كان التعطش إلى درك حقائق الأمور دأبي وديدني من أول أمري وريعان عمري، غريزة وفطرة من الله وضعتا في جبلتي، لا باختياري وحيلتي، حتى انحلت عني رابطة التقليد وانكسرت على العقائد الموروثة على قرب عهد سن الصبا

matter with you, Commander of the Believers?’ To this he would reply: ‘The time has come for a trust which God offered to the heavens and the earth and the mountains, but they refused to carry it; they were wary of it, but I have taken it on.