Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali Quotes

#1. Hazrat Abu Darda'a said: He who thinks that to go at dawn in search of knowledge is not jihad is deficient in intellect.

Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali

#2. Wealth and property are the servants of body which is the vehicle of soul of which the essence is knowledge and for which there is honor of soul.

Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali

#3. The Prophet said: Don't sit with every learned man. Sit with the learned man who calls towards five matters towards faith from doubt, sincerity from show, modesty from pride, love from enmity, and ascetism from worldliness.

Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali

#4. The learned man who does not act up to his knowledge is like a patient who describes the qualities of a medicine without using it or like a hungry man who describes the taste of a food without eating it.

Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali

#5. And how can someone be described as flawless [or protector] who is not freed from his lower self

Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali

#6. A learned man said: The learned men are the lights of the ages. Each is a light in his own time giving light to the people of his time.

Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali

#7. To give a thing to one who is not fit for it and not to give a thing to one who is fit for it is equally oppression.

Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali

#8. Desire makes slaves out of kings, while patience makes kings out of slaves.

Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali

#9. The fourth duty of a teacher is to dissuade his students from evil ways with care and caution, with sympathy and not with rebuke and harshness, because in that case it destroys the veil of awe and encourages disobedience.

Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali