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

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

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

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

Aim Sincere Support
And if a person were given all of the world and what is in it, it would not fill his emptiness.
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Emptiness Given World
Sins have many side-effects. One of them is that they steal knowledge from you.
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Sides Sin Stealing
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
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
The perfection of Tawheed is found when there remains nothing in the heart except Allaah
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Found Heart Perfection
There are no means of attaining faith and certainty except through the Qur’an.
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Attain Certainty Mean
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.
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Action Hours Way
One of the most beneficial of remedies is persisting in du’a.
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Beneficial Persisting Remedy
Whoever desires to purify his heart, then let him prefer Allah to his desires
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God Religious Wisdom
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
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
A real man is one who fears the death of his heart, not of his body.
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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.
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Heart Spoons Taste
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