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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

O you, who spends his lifetime disobeying his Lord, no one amongst your enemies is wicked to you more than you are to yourself
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Enemy Lifetime Wicked
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.
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Hands Heart Libertarian
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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Action Hours Way
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
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
Beware of preoccupying your heart with what it has not been created for.
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Created Heart Preoccupying
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
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
Sins have many side-effects. One of them is that they steal knowledge from you.
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Sides Sin Stealing
There are no means of attaining faith and certainty except through the Qur’an.
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Attain Certainty Mean
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
A person’s tongue can give you the taste of his heart.
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Giving Heart Taste
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
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God Lead Life Wisdom
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
One of the most beneficial of remedies is persisting in du’a.
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Beneficial Persisting Remedy
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