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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

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.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Angel Animal Sex
A person’s tongue can give you the taste of his heart.
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Giving Heart Taste
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
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
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
Whoever desires to purify his heart, then let him prefer Allah to his desires
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God Religious Wisdom
One of the most beneficial of remedies is persisting in du’a.
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Beneficial Persisting Remedy
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 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
And verily for everything that a slave loses there is a substitute, but the one who loses Allah will never find anything to replace Him.
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Loses Slave Substitutes
Imaan is of two halves; half is patience (Sabr) and half is being thankful (Shukr).
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Being Half Thankful Two
Beware of preoccupying your heart with what it has not been created for.
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Created Heart Preoccupying
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
A true believer does not fear physical death, rather he fears the death of his heart
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Believer Death Heart
The hijrah to Allah includes abandoning what He hates and doing what He loves and accepts.
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Abandoning Accepting Hate
A real man is one who fears the death of his heart, not of his body.
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Heart Men Real