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

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
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
There are no means of attaining faith and certainty except through the Qur’an.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Attain Certainty Mean
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
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
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
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
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
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
The hijrah to Allah includes abandoning what He hates and doing what He loves and accepts.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Abandoning Accepting Hate
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
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
Be sincere in your aim and you will find the support of Allaah surrounding you.
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Aim Sincere Support
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
A true believer does not fear physical death, rather he fears the death of his heart
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Believer Death Heart