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“Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see -egoism, arrogance, conceit, selfishness, greed, lust, intolerance, anger, lying, cheating, gossiping and slandering. If you can master and destroy them, then you will be read to fight the enemy you can see.”
― Al-Ghazzali

“Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.”
― Imam Al-Ghazali

“The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.”
― Imam Al-Ghazali

“…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

“Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.”
― Imam al-Ghazali

“Know, O beloved, that man was not created in jest or at random, but marvellously made and for some great end. Although he is not form everlasting, yet he lives for ever; and though his body is mean and earthly, yet his spirit is lofty and divine”
― Al-Ghazali

“Praise be to God; whose compassion is all-embracing and Whose mercy is universal; Who rewards His servants for their remembrance [dhikr] [of Him] with His remembrance [of them] - verily God (Exalted is He!) has said, 'Remember Me, and I will remember you' - Opening lines from Kitab al-Adhkar wa'l Da'awat of the Ihya ulum ad-Din”
― al-Ghazali

“Men have such a good opinion of themselves, of their mental superiority and intellectual depth; they believe themselves so skilled in discerning the true from the false, the path of safety from those of error, that they should be forbidden as much as possible the perusal of philosophic writings.”
― Al-Ghazali

“Mempelajari pengetahuan itu adalah sama dengan memuji Allah SWT.
Menuntut pengetahuan adalah sama dengan melakukan perang di jalan Allah SWT.
Mengajarkan pengetahuan adalah sama dengan bersedekah, dan dengan mengajarkan pengetahuan kita akan mendapat pahala.”
― Al-Ghazali

“Ukhuwah itu bukan pada indahnya pertemuan, tapi pada ingatan seseorang terhadap saudaranya di dalam doanya.”
― Imam Al-Ghazali

“Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.”
― Imam Al-Ghazzali

“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 Him, and to no one else. Indeed, all your suffering comes from this: that you do not turn towards God.”
― Imam Al Ghazali

“رسول الله صلي الله عليه و سلم قال لبعض أصحابه : اعمل لدنياك بقدر مقامك فيها ، واعمل لآخرتك بقدر بقائك فيها ، واعمل لله بقدر حاجتك إليه واعمل للنار بقدر صبرك عليها ، و إذا أردت أن تعصي مولاك ، فاطلب مكاناً لا يراك .”
― Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, أيها الولد

“A fourth group of people climbs from ignorance and pretends to possess the rational faculty. They suppose that the highest felicity is the expansion of honor and fame, the spread of reputation, a multiplicity of followers, and the influence of the command that is obeyed. Hence, you see that their only concern is eye service and cultivation of the things upon which observers cast their glance. One of them may go hungry in his house and suffer harm so that he can spend his wealth on clothes with which to adorn himself so that no one will look at him with the eye of contempt when he goes out. The types of these people are beyond count. All of them are veiled from Allah by the sheer darkness that is their own dark souls.”
― Al-Ghazali, The Niche of Lights

“A third group of people see the highest felicity in the abundance of property and the extension of ease. After all, property is an instrument to achieve the object of appetite. Through it, the human being attains the ability to achieve wishes. Hence, these people aspire to gather property; to increase estates, land, valuable horses, cattle, and farmland, and to hoard dinars in the earth. Hence, you will see one of them striving throughout life --- embarking on great dangers in the deserts, on journeys, and in the oceans to gather possessions with which he is niggardly toward himself, to say nothing of others. These are the ones meant by the words of The Prophet: "The slave of the dirham is miserable: the slave of the dinar is miserable." What darkness is greater than that which deceives the human being? Gold and silver are two stones that are not desired in themselves. When wishes are not achieved through them and they are not spent, then they are just like pebbles, and pebbles are just like them.”
― Al-Ghazali, The Niche of Lights

“Hendaklah tukang-tukang cerita waspada terhadap hal-hal bohong dan hikayat-hikayat yang menyajikan perbuatan salah, atau yang tujuan baiknya tidak dapat difahamkan oleh umum. Atau, cerita itu merupakan satu pertarungan antara yang baik dengan buruk, lalu yang buruk mendapat pembelaan yang berlebihan sebelum dikalahkan oleh yang baik. Tanpa disedari, hal ini memberanikan orang berbuat dosa (Ihya' Ulumuddin).”
― Imam al-Ghazali

“Filsafat yang mampu mengubah sesearang ”
― Imam Al- Ghazali

“Aku telah menerobos setiap celah yang gelap, aku telah menyerang setiap persoalan, aku telah menyelam ke dalam setiap lautan, aku telah meneliti akidah semua sekte, aku telah menelanjangi semua doktrin rahasia setiap komunitas. Semua ini kulakukan agar aku dapat membedakan antara kebenaran dan kesesatan, antara tradisi yang sahih dan pembaruan yang bid'ah”
― Abu Hamid al-Ghazali

“و اعلم أن الرياء يتولد من تعظيم الخلق ، و علاجه أن تراهم مسخرين للقدرة ، و تحسبهم كالجامدات في عدم قدرة إيصال الراحة و المشقة ، لتخلص من مراياتهم ، و متي تحسبهم ذوي قدرة و إرادةٍ لن يبعد عنك الرياء”
― Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, أيها الولد

“قال رسول الله صلي الله عليه و سلم ،، من عمل بما علم ورثه الله علم ما لم يعلم”
― Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, أيها الولد

“Live as long as you want, but you must die; love whatever you want, but you will become separated from it; and do what you want, but you will be repaid for it!”
― Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, Al-Ghazali's Letter to a Disciple

“Knowledge without work is insanity, and work without knowledge is vanity. Know that any science which does not remove you today far from apostasy, and does not carry you to obedience, will not remove you tomorrow from the fire of hell.”
― Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, أيها الولد

“Marilah kita bersatu untuk menghadapi musuh bersama kerana pada suatu titik waktu kritikal, kita harus melupakan pertelingkahan peribadi kita.”
― Al-Ghazali, Tahafut Al-Falasifah: Kekacauan Para Filsuf

“Say to my friends, when they look upon me, dead,
Weeping for me and mourning me in sorrow,
‘Do not believe that this corpse you see is myself,
In the name of God, I tell you, it is not I,
I am a spirit, and this is naught but flesh,
It was my abode and my garment for a time.
I am a treasure, by a talisman kept hid,
Fashioned of dust, which served me as a shrine,
I am a pearl, which has left it’s shell deserted,
I am a bird, and this body was my cage,
Whence I have now flown forth and it is left as a token,
Praise to God, who hath now set me free,
And prepared for me my place in the highest of the Heavens,
Until today I was dead, though alive in your midst.
Now I live in truth, with the grave – clothes discarded.
Today I hold converse with the Saints above,
With no veil between, I see God face to face.
I look upon “Loh-i-Mahfuz” and there in I read,
Whatever was and is, and all that is to be.
Let my house fall in ruins, lay my cage in the ground,
Cast away the talisman, it is a token no more,
Lay aside my cloak, it was but my outer garment.
Place them all in the grave, let them be forgotten,
I have passed on my way and you are left behind,
Your place of abode was no dwelling place for me.
Think not that death is death, nay, it is life,
A life that surpasses all we could dream of here,
While in this world, here we are granted sleep,
Death is but sleep, sleep that shall be prolonged
Be not frightened when death draweth nigh,
It is but the departure for this blessed home,
Think of the mercy and love of your Lord,
Give thanks for His Grace and come without fear.
What I am now, even so shall you be,
For I know that you are even as I am,
The souls of all men come forth from God,
The bodies of all are compounded alike,
Good and evil, alike it was ours.
I give you now a message of good cheer
May God’s peace and joy forever more be yours.”
― Abu Hamid al-Ghazali

“Mujahadah adalah kunci petunjuk, tidak ada kunci petunjuk selain mujahadah”
― Imam Al Ghazali

“Kedudukan apakah di dunia Allah ini yang lebih rendah daripada kedudukan orang yang menganggap terhormat meninggalkan kebenaran yang diterima secara autoriti tetapi lalu segera menerima pembohongan secara taklid tanpa didukung penelitian yang saksama?”
― Al-Ghazali, Tahafut Al-Falasifah: Kekacauan Para Filsuf

“How many nights have you remained awake repeating science and poring over books, and have denied yourself sleep. I do not know what the purpose of it was. If it was attaining worldly ends and securing its vanities, and acquiring its dignities, and surpassing your contemporaries, and such like, woe to you and again woe; but if your purpose in it was the vitalizing of the Law of the Prophet, and the training of your character, and breaking the soul commanding to evil, then blessed are you and again blessed.”
― Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, أيها الولد

“Den Wert von vieren kennen aber nur vier: Den Wert des Lebens kennen nur die Toten; den Wert des Gesunden nur die Kranken; den Wert der Jugendkraft kennen nur die Altersschwachen; und den Wert des Reichtums kennen nur die Armen.”
― Imam Al-Ghazali

“Faith is confession with the tongue and belief with the heart and work with the members of the body. So long as you do not work, you do not find reward.”
― Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, أيها الولد

“O youth.......be assured that knowledge alone does not strengthen the hand......Though a man read a hundred thousand scientific questions and understood them or learned them, but did not work with them---They do not benefit him except by working.....Knowledge is the tree, and working is its fruit; and though you studied a hundred years and assembled a thousand books, you would not be prepared for the mercy of Allah the Exalted except by working.”
― Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, أيها الولد