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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

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

Abandoning Accepting Hate
Whoever desires to purify his heart, then let him prefer Allah to his desires
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

God Religious Wisdom
The perfection of Tawheed is found when there remains nothing in the heart except Allaah
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Found Heart Perfection
Allah will never humiliate the one who takes his Lord as friend and patron.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Humiliate Lord Patron
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
As long as you are performing prayer, you are knocking at the door of Allah, and whoever is knocking at the door of Allah, Allah will open it for him.
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Islamic Prayer Religious
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.
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Life Losing People Worldly
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
Sins have many side-effects. One of them is that they steal knowledge from you.
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Sides Sin Stealing
The sea of pleasures may drown its owner and the swimmer fears to open his eyes under the water.
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Eye Sea Water
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
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
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
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