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“قال عيسى عليه السلام: (إنّي ما عجزت عن إحياء الموتى و قد عجزت عن معالجة الأحمق).”
― Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, ‫أيها الولد‬

“For surely it is not the eyes that are blind, but blinded are the hearts which are in the breasts”
― Abu Hamid al-Ghazali

“و ما عثرتَ عليه لا يغلب على الظن عدم ما لم تعثر عليه - و عدم وجودك على الدليل لا يغلب على الظن عدم الدليل.
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― Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali, شفاء الغليل في بيان الشبه و المخيل و مسالك التعليل

“Yet whoever believes in something to which he has not attained believes in what he cannot see [al-ghayb], and that is the key to happiness.”
― أبو حامد الغزالي, Al-Ghazali on the Ninety-nine Beautiful Names of God

“Whoever abstracts and isolates the outward from the whole is a Materialist, and whoever abstracts. the inward is a Spiritualist, while he who joins the two together is catholic, perfect.”
― أبو حامد الغزالي, The Niche of Lights

“I will rouse you from your sleep, you who have given yourself up to recitation, who have taken the study of the Qur’an as a practice, who have seized upon some of its outward meanings and sentences.

How long will you wander about the shore of the sea with your eyes closed to its wonders?

Was it not for you to sail through its depths in order to see its amazing things, to travel to its islands to pick its delicacies, to dive to its bottom and become rich from obtaining its jewels? Don’t you despise yourself for losing out on its pearls and jewels as you continue to look only to its shores and esoteric aspects? Haven’t you heard that the Qur’an is an ocean from which the knowledge of all ages branches out just as rivers and streams branch out from the shores of the ocean?

Don’t you envy the happiness of people who have plunged into its overflowing waves and seized red sulfur, who have dived into its depths and taken out red rubies, shining pearls and green chrysolite, who have roamed its shores and gathered gray ambergris and fresh blooming aloes wood, who have clung to its islands and found an abundance in their animals of the greatest antidote and pungent musk?”
― ابوحامد محمد غزالی

“A rational foe is better than an ignorant friend.”
― Al-Ghazali, al-ghazali: Los misterios de la purificación para niños, incluyendo Workbook

“Thus he who slandered will see himself in the guise of a cannibal eating his dead brother's flesh, and he who envied as one who cast stones against a wall, which stones, rebounding, put out the eyes of his own children. This”
― أبو حامد الغزالي, The Alchemy of Happiness

“God said unto Jesus, "O Jesus! When I see in My servants' hearts pure love for Myself unmixed with any selfish desire concerning this world or the next, I act as guardian over that love." Again, when people asked Jesus "What is the highest work of all?" he answered, "To love God and to be resigned to His will.”
― أبو حامد الغزالي, The Alchemy of Happiness

“اعلم أن مفتاح معرفة الله تعالى هو معرفة النفس، كما قال سبحانه وتعالى: (سَنُريهِم آياتِنا في الآفاقِ وَفي أَنفُسِهِم حَتّى يَتَبَيَّنَ لَهُم أَنَّهُ الحَقُّ). وقال النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم: (من عرف نفسه فقد عرف ربه). وليس شيء أقرب إليك من نفسك، فإذا لم تعرف نفسك، فكيف تعرف ربك؟ فإن قلت: إني أعرف نفسي! فإنما تعرف الجسم الظاهر، الذي هو اليد والرجل والرأس والجثة، ولا تعرف ما في باطنك من الأمر الذي به إذا غضبت طلبت الخصومة، وإذا اشتهيت طلبت النكاح، وإذا جعت طلبت الأكل، وإذا عطشت طلبت الشرب.”
― أبو حامد الغزالي, كيمياء السعادة

“…a man should say to his soul every morning, "God has given thee twenty-four treasures; take heed lest thou lose anyone of them, for thou wilt not be able to endure the regret that will follow such loss.”
― Al-Ghazali, The Alchemy of Happiness

“A person in whom the desire for this knowledge has disappeared is like one who has lost his appetite for healthy food, or who prefers feeding on clay to eating bread.”
― أبو حامد الغزالي, The Alchemy of Happiness

“in everyday matters we see that it is impossible to explain the charm of poetry to one whose ear is insusceptible of cadence and rhythm, or the glories of colour to one who is stone-blind.”
― أبو حامد الغزالي, The Alchemy of Happiness

“People only see the outward, while God sees both the outer and the inner man. He who really believes this will have both his outer and inner being well disciplined. If he disbelieve it, he is an infidel, and if, while believing it, he acts contrary to that belief, be is guilty of the grossest.”
― أبو حامد الغزالي, The Alchemy of Happiness