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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

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.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Hands Order Tests
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
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
The hijrah to Allah includes abandoning what He hates and doing what He loves and accepts.
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Abandoning Accepting Hate
Sins have many side-effects. One of them is that they steal knowledge from you.
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Sides Sin Stealing
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
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
The perfection of Tawheed is found when there remains nothing in the heart except Allaah
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Found Heart Perfection
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
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 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 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
Beware of preoccupying your heart with what it has not been created for.
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Created Heart Preoccupying
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
Imaan is of two halves; half is patience (Sabr) and half is being thankful (Shukr).
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Being Half Thankful Two
A true believer does not fear physical death, rather he fears the death of his heart
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Believer Death Heart