Whoever desires to purify his heart, then let him prefer Allah to his desires
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYAIf you knew the true value of yourself, you will never allow yourself to be humiliated by committing sins.
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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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One of the most beneficial of remedies is persisting in du’a.
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If you knew the true value of yourself, you will never allow yourself to be humiliated by committing sins.
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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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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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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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Doom comes about because of neglecting to evaluate one’s self and because of just following one’s whims.
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Allah will never humiliate the one who takes his Lord as friend and patron.
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If you wish to check how much you love Allah, then see how much your heart loves the Quran, and you will know the answer.
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A person’s tongue can give you the taste of his heart.
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Be to Allah as He wishes, and He will be to you more than you can wish for.
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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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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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The perfection of Tawheed is found when there remains nothing in the heart except Allaah
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Sins have many side-effects. One of them is that they steal knowledge from you.
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