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If you knew the true value of yourself, you will never allow yourself to be humiliated by committing sins.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

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 sinner does not feel any remorse over his sins, that is because his heart is already dead
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Heart Islamic Religious
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
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
Beware of preoccupying your heart with what it has not been created for.
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Created Heart Preoccupying
Whoever desires to purify his heart, then let him prefer Allah to his desires
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God Religious Wisdom
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
A true believer does not fear physical death, rather he fears the death of his heart
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Believer Death Heart
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
Allah will never humiliate the one who takes his Lord as friend and patron.
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Humiliate Lord Patron
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
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
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
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
One of the most beneficial of remedies is persisting in du’a.
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Beneficial Persisting Remedy