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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

O people who take pleasure in a life that will vanish, falling in love with a fading shadow is sheer stupidity
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Fall In Love Life Religious
A real man is one who fears the death of his heart, not of his body.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Heart Men Real
Sins have many side-effects. One of them is that they steal knowledge from you.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Sides Sin Stealing
Whoever desires to purify his heart, then let him prefer Allah to his desires
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God Religious Wisdom
If you knew the true value of yourself, you will never allow yourself to be humiliated by committing sins.
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Humiliated Sin True Value
Be sincere in your aim and you will find the support of Allaah surrounding you.
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Aim Sincere Support
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
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
There are no means of attaining faith and certainty except through the Qur’an.
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Attain Certainty Mean
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
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
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
A person’s tongue can give you the taste of his heart.
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Giving Heart Taste
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
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
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
A true believer does not fear physical death, rather he fears the death of his heart
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Believer Death Heart
Every drop of sweat and every breath we take in life, if not taken for the sake of Allah, will lead to regret and sorrow on the Day of Judgment
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God Lead Life Wisdom
If you wish to check how much you love Allah, then see how much your heart loves the Quran, and you will know the answer.
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Answers Heart Wish
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.
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Choices Life Shadow
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
Beware of preoccupying your heart with what it has not been created for.
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Created Heart Preoccupying
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
The perfection of Tawheed is found when there remains nothing in the heart except Allaah
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Found Heart Perfection
Allah will never humiliate the one who takes his Lord as friend and patron.
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Humiliate Lord Patron
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
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