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O people who take pleasure in a life that will vanish, falling in love with a fading shadow is sheer stupidity

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

A person’s tongue can give you the taste of his heart.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Giving Heart Taste
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.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Action Hours Way
If you knew the true value of yourself, you will never allow yourself to be humiliated by committing sins.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Humiliated Sin True Value
As you can taste a pot full of food with a spoon likewise someone’s tounge can tell you about his heart.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Heart Spoons Taste
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-JAWZIYYA

Hands Heart Libertarian
This wordly life is like a shadow. If you try to catch it, you will never be able to do so. If you turn your back towards it, it has no choice but to follow you.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Choices Life Shadow
A tear that runs down a believer’s cheek is more beneficial than a thousand raindrops on the earth
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Islamic Religious Running
As long as one is following the right way, one should never be concerned about the reproaches of those who like to find faults.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Fault Long Way
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.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Attached Betrayed Depend Heart
And to have spent the night sleeping and awoken regretful, is better than to have spent the night standing (in prayer) and awaken impressed with oneself!
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Impress Night Prayer Sleep
O people who take pleasure in a life that will vanish, falling in love with a fading shadow is sheer stupidity
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Fall In Love Life Religious
A true believer does not fear physical death, rather he fears the death of his heart
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Believer Death Heart
Doom comes about because of neglecting to evaluate one’s self and because of just following one’s whims.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Neglect Self Whim
The hijrah to Allah includes abandoning what He hates and doing what He loves and accepts.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Abandoning Accepting Hate
Every drop of sweat and every breath we take in life, if not taken for the sake of Allah, will lead to regret and sorrow on the Day of Judgment
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

God Lead Life Wisdom
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.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Loses Slave Substitutes