Deliverance from Error Quotes

“So I became certain that I was on the brink of a crumbling bank and already on the verge of falling into the Fire, unless I set about mending my ways… Mundane desires began tugging me with their chains to remain as I was, while the herald of faith was crying out: „Away! Up and away! Only a little is left of your life, and a long journey lies before you! All the theory and practice in which you are engrossed is eyeservice and fakery! If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, when will you do so? And if you do not sever these attachments now, then when will you sever them? (al-Ghazali)”
― R.J. McCarthy, Deliverance from Error: Five Key Texts Including His Spiritual Autobiography, al-Munqidh min al-Dalal