Inspiration from Past & Present
The tongue is a great endowment from Allah; though small in size, its crime is enormous.
—Imam Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī [d. 505H/1111CE]
Ghazali, Imam Abu Hamid (1978). Ihya Ulum ad-Din. Karachi, Darul Isha’at Publishers.
(Read on pg 62, Dr. Gohar Mushtaq, The Intelligent Heart, The Pure Heart. Ta-Ha Publishers. London: 2006.)
If we do not get upset whenever we miss an act of virtue or prayer and if we do not feel shame after committing an act of disobedience to Allah then that is a sign of the death of our (spiritual) heart.
—Ibn Ata illah Iskandari
(Read on pg 52, Dr. Gohar Mushtaq, The Intelligent Heart, The Pure Heart. Ta-Ha Publishers. London: 2006.)
The intelligent person sees with the heart
The result from the beginning;
The one lacking in knowledge
Only discovers it at the end.
Rumi’s Mathnawi, Vol III, 4129
(Read on pg 18, Dr. Gohar Mushtaq, The Intelligent Heart, The Pure Heart. Ta-Ha Publishers. London: 2006.)
Knowledge does not refer to plenty of information; rather, knowledge is a light that Allah puts into the heart of a true believer.
—Imām Mālik [d. 179H/795CE]
Abu Zahra, Muhammad (1990). Life of Imam Malik (Urdu) Lahore, Sheikh Ghulam Ali & Sons.
(Read on pg 17, Dr. Gohar Mushtaq, The Intelligent Heart, The Pure Heart. Ta-Ha Publishers. London: 2006.)