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Whoever desires to purify his heart, then let him prefer Allah to his desires

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
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
Imaan is of two halves; half is patience (Sabr) and half is being thankful (Shukr).
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Being Half Thankful Two
As long as one is following the right way, one should never be concerned about the reproaches of those who like to find faults.
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Fault Long Way
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 tear that runs down a believer’s cheek is more beneficial than a thousand raindrops on the earth
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Islamic Religious Running
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
And to have spent the night sleeping and awoken regretful, is better than to have spent the night standing (in prayer) and awaken impressed with oneself!
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Impress Night Prayer Sleep
Beware of preoccupying your heart with what it has not been created for.
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Created Heart Preoccupying
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
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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Contact Discover Injustice Wait
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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Enemy Lifetime Wicked
The hijrah to Allah includes abandoning what He hates and doing what He loves and accepts.
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Abandoning Accepting Hate
Be to Allah as He wishes, and He will be to you more than you can wish for.
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God More Trust Wish
There are no means of attaining faith and certainty except through the Qur’an.
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Attain Certainty Mean
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