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

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

One of the most beneficial of remedies is persisting in du’a.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Beneficial Persisting Remedy
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
Sins have many side-effects. One of them is that they steal knowledge from you.
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Sides Sin Stealing
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
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
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
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
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
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
The hijrah to Allah includes abandoning what He hates and doing what He loves and accepts.
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Abandoning Accepting Hate
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
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 sinner does not feel any remorse over his sins, that is because his heart is already dead
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Heart Islamic Religious
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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Hands Heart Libertarian
There are no means of attaining faith and certainty except through the Qur’an.
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Attain Certainty Mean
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