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The sinner does not feel any remorse over his sins, that is because his heart is already dead

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

A person’s tongue can give you the taste of his heart.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Giving Heart Taste
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
The hijrah to Allah includes abandoning what He hates and doing what He loves and accepts.
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Abandoning Accepting Hate
There are no means of attaining faith and certainty except through the Qur’an.
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Attain Certainty Mean
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
Losing time is harder than death, as losing time keeps you away from Allah and the Hereafter, while death keeps you away from the worldly life and people.
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Life Losing People Worldly
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
Whoever desires to purify his heart, then let him prefer Allah to his desires
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God Religious Wisdom
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
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
Beware of preoccupying your heart with what it has not been created for.
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Created Heart Preoccupying
The sea of pleasures may drown its owner and the swimmer fears to open his eyes under the water.
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Eye Sea Water
One of the most beneficial of remedies is persisting in du’a.
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Beneficial Persisting Remedy
Imaan is of two halves; half is patience (Sabr) and half is being thankful (Shukr).
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Being Half Thankful Two