قال الشافعي رضي الله عنه: ماناظرت أحداً قط فأحببت أن يخطىء. وقال: ما كلمت أحداً قط إلا احببت أن يوفق ويسدد ويعان ويكون عليه رعاية من الله تعالي وحفظ، و… - Al-Ghazali

العلماء ثلاثة: إما مهلك نفسه وغيره وهم المصرحون بطلب الدنيا والمقبلون عليها، وإما مسعد نفسه وغيره وهم الداعون الخلق إلي الله سبحانه ظاهراً وباطناً، وإما مهلك نفسه مسعد غيره وهو الذي يدعو إلي الآخرة وقد رفض الدنيا في ظاهره وقصد في الباطن قبول الخلق وإقامة الجاه، فانظر من أي الأقسام أنت ومن الذي اشتغلت بالاعتداد له؟ فلا تظنن أن الله تعالي يقبل غير الخالص لوجهه تعالي من العلم والعمل.

If you were to show a piece of intelligible writing to a reasonable person and say to him: 'do you know its writer?' and he said 'no', he would be speaking truly. But if he said 'yes: its writer is a man living and powerful, hearing and seeing, sound of hand and knowledgeable in the practise of writing, and if I know all this from [the sample] how can I not know him?-he too would be speaking truly. Yet the saying of the one who said 'I do not know him' is more correct and true, for in reality he has not known him. Rather he only knows that intelligible writing requires a living writer, knowing, powerful, hearing, and seeing; yet he does not know the writer himself. Similarly, every creature knows only that this ordered and precisely disposed world requires an arranging, living, knowing, and powerful maker.

What’s meant for you will reach you even if it’s beneath two mountains, and what’s not meant for you won’t reach you even if it’s between your two lips.