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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

And if a person were given all of the world and what is in it, it would not fill his emptiness.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Emptiness Given World
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
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
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
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
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
Women are one half of society which gives birth to the other half so it is as if they are the entire society.
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Giving Society Women
One of the most beneficial of remedies is persisting in du’a.
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Beneficial Persisting Remedy
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
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
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
There are no means of attaining faith and certainty except through the Qur’an.
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Attain Certainty Mean
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
The perfection of Tawheed is found when there remains nothing in the heart except Allaah
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Found Heart Perfection
Be sincere in your aim and you will find the support of Allaah surrounding you.
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Aim Sincere Support
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
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
Sins have many side-effects. One of them is that they steal knowledge from you.
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Sides Sin Stealing
The hijrah to Allah includes abandoning what He hates and doing what He loves and accepts.
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Abandoning Accepting Hate
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
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
Whoever desires to purify his heart, then let him prefer Allah to his desires
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God Religious Wisdom
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
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 preoccupying your heart with what it has not been created for.
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Created Heart Preoccupying
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 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