Top 50 Al-Ghazali Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.”

— Al-Ghazali

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2. “Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.”

— Al-Ghazali

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3. “To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.”

— Al-Ghazali

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4. “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-Ghazali

5. “Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.”

— Al-Ghazali

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6. “Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.”

— Al-Ghazali

7. “Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.”

— Al-Ghazali

8. “The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.”

— Al-Ghazali

9. “Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.”

— Al-Ghazali

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10. “You must convince your heart that whatever Allah has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial for you.”

— Al-Ghazali

11. “A man of bad character punishes his own soul.”

— Al-Ghazali

12. “If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?”

— Al-Ghazali

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13. “Offen love between two people intensifies not because of beauty or some advantage, but because of sheer spiritual affinity.”

— Al-Ghazali

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14. “If you’re busy with yourself now, you will be busy with yourself then. If you are busy with Allah now, you will be with Him then.”

— Al-Ghazali

15. “To completely trust in Allah is to be like a child who knows deeply that even if he does not call for the mother, the mother is totally aware of his condition and is looking after him.”

— Al-Ghazali

16. “Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.”

— Al-Ghazali

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17. “Half of disbelief in Allah in the world is caused by people who make religion look ugly due to their bad conduct and ignorance.”

— Al-Ghazali

18. “The corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances.”

— Al-Ghazali

19. “You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.”

— Al-Ghazali

20. “Man’s nature is made up of four elements, which produce in him four attributes, namely, the beastly, the brutal, the satanic, and the divine. In man there is something of the pig, the dog, the devil, and the saint.”

— Al-Ghazali

21. “The way to paradise is an uphill climb whereas hell is downhill. Hence, there is a struggle to get to paradise and not to hell.”

— Al-Ghazali

22. “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.”

— Al-Ghazali

23. “This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.”

— Al-Ghazali

24. “The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.”

— Al-Ghazali

25. “Understand that for every rule which I have mentioned from the Quran, the Devil has one to match it, which he puts beside the proper rule to cause error.”

— Al-Ghazali

26. “Whoever determines the truth from people alone will remain lost in the plains of bewilderment. Rather, know the truth, and you will know its people.”

— Al-Ghazali

27. “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 the number of idle words they speak.”

— Al-Ghazali

28. “Know, O beloved, that man was not created in jest or at random, but marvelously 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

29. “If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.”

— Al-Ghazali

30. “Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, “men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned””

— Al-Ghazali

31. “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 toward God and no one else.”

— Al-Ghazali

32. “A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people.”

— Al-Ghazali

33. “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 feeding and adorning his camel, the caravan will leave him behind, and he will perish in the desert.”

— Al-Ghazali

34. “Work for your terrestrial life in proportion to your location in it, and work for your afterlife in proportion to your eternity in it.”

— Al-Ghazali

35. “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

36. “The essence of knowledge is to know what obedience and worship are -Abu Hamid al.”

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37. “Whoever passes forty without his virtue overpowering his vice, let him get ready for hellfire. This advice contains enough for people of knowledge.”

— Al-Ghazali

38. “Remember it is the heart and not the body, which strives to draw near to God. By heart I do not mean the flesh perceived by the senses, but that secret thing which is sometimes expressed by spirit, and sometimes by soul.”

— Al-Ghazali

39. “He who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world.”

— Al-Ghazali

40. “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.”

— Al-Ghazali

41. “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 which they talked lightly is eaten away by the worms.”

— Al-Ghazali

42. “Each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, since each of them is irreplaceable and once gone, can never be retrieved.”

— Al-Ghazali

43. “Love for God is the farthest reach of all stations, the sun of the highest degrees, and there is no station after that of love, except its fruit and its consequences.”

— Al-Ghazali

44. “He who does not arrive at the Intuition of these Truths by means of Ecstasy knows only the name of Inspiration.”

— Al-Ghazali

45. “If the world had two gods, it would surely go to ruin-this is the first premise. Now it is known that it has not gone to ruin-this is the second premise. From these premises the conclusion must of necessity follow, that is, the denial of two gods.”

— Al-Ghazali

46. “It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother’s milk.”

— Al-Ghazali

47. “No one who possesses snow would find any hardship in exchanging it for jewels and pearls. This world is like snow exposed to sun, which continues to melt until it disappears altogether, while the next life is like a precious stone that never passes away.”

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48. “For surely it is not the eyes that are blind, but blinded are the hearts which are in the breasts.”

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49. “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.”

— Al-Ghazali

50. “The reason of the human spirit seeking to return to that upper world is that its origin is from thence, and that it is of angelic nature.”

— Al-Ghazali