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Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.

Ibn Taymiyyah

Beautiful leaving (hajr), is to leave without harming, beautiful pardoning is to pardon without rebuking, and beautiful patience is to be patient without complaining.
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Beautiful Complain Harm Leaving
Through patience and certainty, leadership in the religion is obtained.
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Achievement Leadership Patience Religion
Sins are like chains and locks preventing their perpetrator from roaming the vast garden of Tawheed and reaping the fruits of righteous actions.
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Action Fruit Garden Result Right Sin
Dhikr (remembrance of Allah) is to the heart as water is to a fish; see what happens to a fish when it is taken out of water.
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Death Heart Prayer Religious Water
The People of the Sunnah are the most knowledgeable of mankind concerning the truth, and the most merciful of the creation towards the rest of creation.
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Creation Kind Knowledge Man Mercy People Truth
The more humble, needy, and subdued you are before Allah, the closer you will be to Him.
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Close Humble Need Religious Worship Yourself
When someone offends me, I think it’s a gift from Allah (god). He (Allah) is teaching me humility.
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Humility Teaching Thinking
Whatever is not done by the permission of Allah will not happen, and what is not done for the sake of Allah will not benefit or remain.
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God Permission Religious
Make tawba not just for sins you’ve committed, but also for obligations you haven’t fulfilled.
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Commitment Obligation Prayer Religious Sin Yourself
Whatever is not done by the permission of Allah will not happen, and what is not done for the sake of Allah will not benefit or remain.
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God Permission Religious
Everyone experiences bouts of jealousy; but the dignified person conceals it, while the vulgar one acts upon it
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Act Action Experience Jealous Person
Allah guards the justice loving government, even if it is the government of non-Muslims, and destroys the tyrant government, even if it is the government of Muslims.
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Democracy Destroy Government Guard Justice
A believer to another believer is like two hands, one washes the other (correcting each other).
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Believe Correct Hands Religious Wisdom
A calamity that makes you turn to Allah is better for you then a blessing which makes you forget the remembrance of Allah
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Adversity Blessing Forget Religious Remember Yourself
This whole religion revolves around knowing the truth and acting by it, and action must be accompanied by patience.
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Act Action Company Patience Religion Truth
Imprisoned is he whose heart is imprisoned from Allâh. Captured is he who is captured by his desires.
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Capture Desire Difference Heart Prison

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