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"Whoever treads a path in search of knowledge, Allah makes easy for him the path to Paradise."

Imam al-Ghazali · The Book of Knowledge

"Knowledge without action is a tree without fruit."

Imam al-Ghazali · The Book of Knowledge

"Envy eats good deeds the way fire eats wood."

Imam al-Ghazali · Rancor and Envy

"The subtlest of the destructive traits is pride, because it hides even from the one who carries it."

Imam al-Ghazali · Pride & Conceit

"Patience is half of faith. The other half is gratitude."

Imam al-Ghazali · Patience & Gratitude

"Gratitude is not a word you say — it is a life you reshape."

Imam al-Ghazali · Patience & Gratitude

"The door of repentance does not close until the sun rises from the west. Until then, it is open for every soul."

Imam al-Ghazali · Repentance

"Love of Allah is not a feeling that visits you. It is a station you climb."

Imam al-Ghazali · The Book of Love, Longing, Intimacy, and Contentment

"The one who remembers death clearly will not spend his life chasing what will not follow him into the grave."

Imam al-Ghazali · The Book of the Remembrance of Death and the Afterlife

"Be in this world as a traveller. A traveller does not build a house on the road."

Imam al-Ghazali · Poverty & Asceticism

"The heart is a king, and the limbs are its army. If the king is corrupt, the army is corrupt."

Imam al-Ghazali · The Book of the Wonders of the Heart

"Every act is weighed by the intention behind it. A small deed with sincerity outweighs a great deed with none."

Imam al-Ghazali · The Book of Intention, Sincerity, and Truthfulness

"The tongue is the smallest of the limbs and the most dangerous."

Imam al-Ghazali · Evils of the Tongue

"Call yourself to account before you are called to account. The one who does it here will not fear it there."

Imam al-Ghazali · The Book of Self-Examination and Self-Reckoning

"Hope and fear are the two wings of the believer. With only one, he falls."

Imam al-Ghazali · Fear & Hope

"A man is shaped by the company he keeps. Choose your friends as you would choose your afterlife."

Imam al-Ghazali · Friendship and Brotherhood

"The first thing Adam did when the soul entered his body was sneeze. He said Alḥamdulillāh. And Allah replied, Yarḥamuk Allāh."

Ibn Kathir · The Story of Adam

"Adam said: Our Lord, we have wronged ourselves. If You do not forgive us and have mercy upon us, we will surely be among the losers."

Ibn Kathir (citing Qurʾan 7:23) · The Story of Adam

"Allah took Ibrāhīm as a friend. Not because Ibrāhīm asked — but because of what Ibrāhīm was willing to put down."

Ibn Kathir · The Story of Ibrahim

"Mūsā stood before Pharaoh with a staff and a brother. That is all he had. And it was enough."

Ibn Kathir · The Story of Musa

"Yūnus called from three darknesses: the darkness of the sea, the darkness of the fish, and the darkness of the night. And Allah answered."

Ibn Kathir · The Story of Yunus & the Destroyed

"ʿĪsā is a word from Allah, placed in Maryam — miraculous from his first breath to his raising to Heaven."

Ibn Kathir · The Story of Isa

"I set out alone, finding no companion to cheer the way, swayed by an overmastering impulse within me, and a long-cherished desire to visit those illustrious sanctuaries."

Ibn Battuta · Volume One

"Damascus is the city which exceeds all cities in beauty, and surpasses them in loveliness. Its citizens devote themselves to the service of strangers."

Ibn Battuta · Volume One

"Makkah is sunk in a hollow surrounded on all sides by hills. Not a tree, not a leaf, not a blade of grass — only glorified by the presence of the Sacred House."

Ibn Battuta · Volume One