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Be sincere in your aim and you will find the support of Allaah surrounding you.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

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.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

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.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

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

Found Heart Perfection
The sea of pleasures may drown its owner and the swimmer fears to open his eyes under the water.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

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

Giving Heart Taste
If you wish to check how much you love Allah, then see how much your heart loves the Quran, and you will know the answer.
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Answers Heart Wish
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!
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Impress Night Prayer Sleep
The sinner does not feel any remorse over his sins, that is because his heart is already dead
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Heart Islamic Religious
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
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.
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Choices Life Shadow
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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Loses Slave Substitutes
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
O people who take pleasure in a life that will vanish, falling in love with a fading shadow is sheer stupidity
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Fall In Love Life Religious
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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Fault Long Way
If you knew the true value of yourself, you will never allow yourself to be humiliated by committing sins.
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Humiliated Sin True Value
Whoever desires to purify his heart, then let him prefer Allah to his desires
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