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A calamity that makes you turn to Allah is better for you then a blessing which makes you forget the remembrance of Allah

Ibn Taymiyyah

Dhikr (remembrance of Allah) is to the heart as water is to a fish; see what happens to a fish when it is taken out of water.
IBN TAYMIYYAH

Death Heart Prayer Religious Water
Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.
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Betray Darkness Independent Shadow Spiritual Wisdom World Yourself
Whatever is not done by the permission of Allah will not happen, and what is not done for the sake of Allah will not benefit or remain.
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God Permission Religious
What can you do with me? My jannah is in my heart! If you take me to jail, I will make zikr of Allah. If you exile me out of my land, I will make takaffur. If you execute me, I would be a shaheed. What can you do with me? Because I am not limited to this dunya. I am living for al-akhira!
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Death Execution God Heart Heaven Limitation Myself Prison Worship Yourself
Allah guards the justice loving government, even if it is the government of non-Muslims, and destroys the tyrant government, even if it is the government of Muslims.
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Democracy Destroy Government Guard Justice
Verily, I constantly renew my Islam until this very day, as up to now, I do not consider myself to have ever been a good Muslim.
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Goodness Myself Religion
Guidance is not attained except with knowledge and correct direction is not attained except with patience.
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Direction Exception Guide Knowledge Patience
Contentment is the greatest door that one enters to Allah, it is the source of tranquility for the worshiper and paradise on earth. Whoever does not enter it will not enter the Paradise in the Hereafter.
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Greatness Religious Satisfaction Tranquility Worship
When people help one another in sin and transgression, they finish by hating each other.
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Hate Helping People
A believer to another believer is like two hands, one washes the other (correcting each other).
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Believe Correct Hands Religious Wisdom
No love that a man has will only give him pleasure in return- he shall also suffer pain because of it, except for love of Allah.
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God Love Men Pain Return Suffering
If you do good in secret, Allah will shower His good on you in public.
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God Goodness Kindness Yourself Secret
The People of the Sunnah are the most knowledgeable of mankind concerning the truth, and the most merciful of the creation towards the rest of creation.
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Creation Kind Knowledge Man Mercy People Truth
This whole religion revolves around knowing the truth and acting by it, and action must be accompanied by patience.
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Act Action Company Patience Religion Truth
Sins cause harm and repentance removes the cause.
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Harm Remove Sin
Through patience and certainty, leadership in the religion is obtained.
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Achievement Leadership Patience Religion

A calamity that makes you turn to Allah is better for you then a blessing which makes you forget the remembrance of Allah

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