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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

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

Created Heart Preoccupying
If you knew the true value of yourself, you will never allow yourself to be humiliated by committing sins.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Humiliated Sin True Value
Allah will never humiliate the one who takes his Lord as friend and patron.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Humiliate Lord Patron
O you, who spends his lifetime disobeying his Lord, no one amongst your enemies is wicked to you more than you are to yourself
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Enemy Lifetime Wicked
The sea of pleasures may drown its owner and the swimmer fears to open his eyes under the water.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Eye Sea Water
Sins have many side-effects. One of them is that they steal knowledge from you.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Sides Sin Stealing
Doom comes about because of neglecting to evaluate one’s self and because of just following one’s whims.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

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

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
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.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Hands Heart Libertarian
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.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Action Hours Way
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 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.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Islamic Prayer Religious
Be to Allah as He wishes, and He will be to you more than you can wish for.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

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