When there is money in your hand and not in your heart, it will not harm you even if it is a lot; and when it is in your heart, it will harm you even if there is none in your hands.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYAIf a man’s patience is stronger than his whims and desires, then he is like an angel, but if his whims and desires are stronger than his patience, then he is like a devil. If his desire for food, drink and sex is stronger than his patience, then he is no better than an animal.
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Beware of preoccupying your heart with what it has not been created for.
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Whoever desires to purify his heart, then let him prefer Allah to his desires
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Losing time is harder than death, as losing time keeps you away from Allah and the Hereafter, while death keeps you away from the worldly life and people.
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The sea of pleasures may drown its owner and the swimmer fears to open his eyes under the water.
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O you, who spends his lifetime disobeying his Lord, no one amongst your enemies is wicked to you more than you are to yourself
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A real man is one who fears the death of his heart, not of his body.
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Ibn Taymiyyah lived poorly. He was imprisoned and threatened. But I have never seen anyone as happy as him.
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As long as one is following the right way, one should never be concerned about the reproaches of those who like to find faults.
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And verily for everything that a slave loses there is a substitute, but the one who loses Allah will never find anything to replace Him.
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Be sincere in your aim and you will find the support of Allaah surrounding you.
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Allah will never humiliate the one who takes his Lord as friend and patron.
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Women are one half of society which gives birth to the other half so it is as if they are the entire society.
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One of the most beneficial of remedies is persisting in du’a.
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There are no means of attaining faith and certainty except through the Qur’an.
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The perfection of Tawheed is found when there remains nothing in the heart except Allaah
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Imaan is of two halves; half is patience (Sabr) and half is being thankful (Shukr).
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The sinner does not feel any remorse over his sins, that is because his heart is already dead
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If a man’s patience is stronger than his whims and desires, then he is like an angel, but if his whims and desires are stronger than his patience, then he is like a devil. If his desire for food, drink and sex is stronger than his patience, then he is no better than an animal.
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Wait until you come on the Day of Mutual Loss and Gain and you will discover the injustice of this contract.
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Beware of every hour and how it passes, and only spend it in the best possible way, do not neglect yourself, but render it accustomed to the noblest and best of actions, and send to your grave that which will please you when you arrive to it.
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Sins have many side-effects. One of them is that they steal knowledge from you.
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If a heart becomes attached to anything other than Allah, Allah makes him dependent on what he is attached to. And he will be betrayed by it.
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Be to Allah as He wishes, and He will be to you more than you can wish for.
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Doom comes about because of neglecting to evaluate one’s self and because of just following one’s whims.
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And if a person were given all of the world and what is in it, it would not fill his emptiness.
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If you knew the true value of yourself, you will never allow yourself to be humiliated by committing sins.
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