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Beware of preoccupying your heart with what it has not been created for.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

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

Found Heart Perfection
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
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
If you knew the true value of yourself, you will never allow yourself to be humiliated by committing sins.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Humiliated Sin True Value
Doom comes about because of neglecting to evaluate one’s self and because of just following one’s whims.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Neglect Self Whim
One of the most beneficial of remedies is persisting in du’a.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Beneficial Persisting Remedy
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
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.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Angel Animal Sex
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 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
Beware of preoccupying your heart with what it has not been created for.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Created Heart Preoccupying
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

Fall In Love Life Religious
Be to Allah as He wishes, and He will be to you more than you can wish for.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

God More Trust Wish
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

Fault Long Way
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.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Hands Heart Libertarian
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.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Life Losing People Worldly