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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

Ibn Taymiyyah lived poorly. He was imprisoned and threatened. But I have never seen anyone as happy as him.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Except God Imprisoned Threatened
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.
IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA

Loses Slave Substitutes
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
O you, who spends his lifetime disobeying his Lord, no one amongst your enemies is wicked to you more than you are to yourself
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Enemy Lifetime Wicked
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
Whoever desires to purify his heart, then let him prefer Allah to his desires
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God Religious Wisdom
Allah will never humiliate the one who takes his Lord as friend and patron.
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Humiliate Lord Patron
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
Women are one half of society which gives birth to the other half so it is as if they are the entire society.
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Giving Society Women
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
There are no means of attaining faith and certainty except through the Qur’an.
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Attain Certainty Mean
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
The sinner does not feel any remorse over his sins, that is because his heart is already dead
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Heart Islamic Religious
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
One of the most beneficial of remedies is persisting in du’a.
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Beneficial Persisting Remedy
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