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A tear that runs down a believer’s cheek is more beneficial than a thousand raindrops on the earth

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
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.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Action Hours Way
As you can taste a pot full of food with a spoon likewise someone’s tounge can tell you about his heart.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Heart Spoons Taste
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
A tear that runs down a believer’s cheek is more beneficial than a thousand raindrops on the earth
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Islamic Religious Running
Ibn Taymiyyah lived poorly. He was imprisoned and threatened. But I have never seen anyone as happy as him.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Except God Imprisoned Threatened
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
Beware of preoccupying your heart with what it has not been created for.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Created Heart Preoccupying
Be sincere in your aim and you will find the support of Allaah surrounding you.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Aim Sincere Support
One of the most beneficial of remedies is persisting in du’a.
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Beneficial Persisting Remedy
The perfection of Tawheed is found when there remains nothing in the heart except Allaah
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Found Heart Perfection
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
Sins have many side-effects. One of them is that they steal knowledge from you.
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Sides Sin Stealing
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
A true believer does not fear physical death, rather he fears the death of his heart
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Believer Death Heart
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