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-JAWZIYYAImaan is of two halves; half is patience (Sabr) and half is being thankful (Shukr).
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Sins have many side-effects. One of them is that they steal knowledge from you.
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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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Be to Allah as He wishes, and He will be to you more than you can wish for.
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The sinner does not feel any remorse over his sins, that is because his heart is already dead
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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.
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Ibn Taymiyyah lived poorly. He was imprisoned and threatened. But I have never seen anyone as happy as him.
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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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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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Allah will never humiliate the one who takes his Lord as friend and patron.
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Imaan is of two halves; half is patience (Sabr) and half is being thankful (Shukr).
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A real man is one who fears the death of his heart, not of his body.
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Whoever desires to purify his heart, then let him prefer Allah to his desires
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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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Wait until you come on the Day of Mutual Loss and Gain and you will discover the injustice of this contract.
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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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