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The perfection of Tawheed is found when there remains nothing in the heart except Allaah

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

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
The perfection of Tawheed is found when there remains nothing in the heart except Allaah
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Found Heart Perfection
Sins have many side-effects. One of them is that they steal knowledge from you.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Sides Sin Stealing
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
Be to Allah as He wishes, and He will be to you more than you can wish for.
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God More Trust Wish
A person’s tongue can give you the taste of his heart.
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Giving Heart Taste
A tear that runs down a believer’s cheek is more beneficial than a thousand raindrops on the earth
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Islamic Religious Running
Beware of preoccupying your heart with what it has not been created for.
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Created Heart Preoccupying
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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Life Losing People Worldly
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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Emptiness Given World
The sea of pleasures may drown its owner and the swimmer fears to open his eyes under the water.
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Eye Sea Water
When Allah tests you it is never to destroy you. When He removes something in your possession it is only in order to empty your hands for an even greater gift.
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Hands Order Tests
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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Attached Betrayed Depend Heart
As you can taste a pot full of food with a spoon likewise someone’s tounge can tell you about his heart.
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Heart Spoons Taste
Imaan is of two halves; half is patience (Sabr) and half is being thankful (Shukr).
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Being Half Thankful Two
Ibn Taymiyyah lived poorly. He was imprisoned and threatened. But I have never seen anyone as happy as him.
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Except God Imprisoned Threatened