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Doom comes about because of neglecting to evaluate one’s self and because of just following one’s whims.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

Beware of preoccupying your heart with what it has not been created for.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Created Heart Preoccupying
Women are one half of society which gives birth to the other half so it is as if they are the entire society.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Giving Society Women
Be to Allah as He wishes, and He will be to you more than you can wish for.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

God More Trust Wish
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
A person’s tongue can give you the taste of his heart.
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Giving Heart Taste
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
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
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
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
One of the most beneficial of remedies is persisting in du’a.
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Beneficial Persisting Remedy
The perfection of Tawheed is found when there remains nothing in the heart except Allaah
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Found Heart Perfection
The hijrah to Allah includes abandoning what He hates and doing what He loves and accepts.
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Abandoning Accepting Hate
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
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
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 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