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A person’s tongue can give you the taste of his heart.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

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.
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Action Hours Way
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
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 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
Sins have many side-effects. One of them is that they steal knowledge from you.
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Sides Sin Stealing
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
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
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
A true believer does not fear physical death, rather he fears the death of his heart
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Believer Death Heart
One of the most beneficial of remedies is persisting in du’a.
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Beneficial Persisting Remedy
Allah will never humiliate the one who takes his Lord as friend and patron.
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Humiliate Lord Patron
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
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 hijrah to Allah includes abandoning what He hates and doing what He loves and accepts.
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Abandoning Accepting Hate
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