black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

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.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Hands Order Tests
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
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 hijrah to Allah includes abandoning what He hates and doing what He loves and accepts.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Abandoning Accepting Hate
Beware of preoccupying your heart with what it has not been created for.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Created Heart Preoccupying
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
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
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.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

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

Found Heart Perfection
A real man is one who fears the death of his heart, not of his body.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Heart Men Real
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
A person’s tongue can give you the taste of his heart.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Giving Heart Taste
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
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
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