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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

Women are one half of society which gives birth to the other half so it is as if they are the entire society.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Giving Society Women
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
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
The hijrah to Allah includes abandoning what He hates and doing what He loves and accepts.
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Abandoning Accepting Hate
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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Enemy Lifetime Wicked
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 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
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
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
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
Doom comes about because of neglecting to evaluate one’s self and because of just following one’s whims.
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Neglect Self Whim
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
Sins have many side-effects. One of them is that they steal knowledge from you.
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Sides Sin Stealing
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
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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Contact Discover Injustice Wait
The perfection of Tawheed is found when there remains nothing in the heart except Allaah
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Found Heart Perfection
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
As long as you are performing prayer, you are knocking at the door of Allah, and whoever is knocking at the door of Allah, Allah will open it for him.
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Islamic Prayer Religious
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
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
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
A true believer does not fear physical death, rather he fears the death of his heart
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Believer Death Heart
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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Angel Animal Sex
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 real man is one who fears the death of his heart, not of his body.
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Heart Men Real
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