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Imprisoned is he whose heart is imprisoned from Allâh. Captured is he who is captured by his desires.

Ibn Taymiyyah

Make tawba not just for sins you’ve committed, but also for obligations you haven’t fulfilled.
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Commitment Obligation Prayer Religious Sin Yourself
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
Sins are like chains and locks preventing their perpetrator from roaming the vast garden of Tawheed and reaping the fruits of righteous actions.
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Action Fruit Garden Result Right Sin
The more humble, needy, and subdued you are before Allah, the closer you will be to Him.
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Close Humble Need Religious Worship Yourself
Imprisoned is he whose heart is imprisoned from Allâh. Captured is he who is captured by his desires.
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Capture Desire Difference Heart Prison
When someone offends me, I think it’s a gift from Allah (god). He (Allah) is teaching me humility.
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Humility Teaching Thinking
When people help one another in sin and transgression, they finish by hating each other.
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Hate Helping People
Beautiful leaving (hajr), is to leave without harming, beautiful pardoning is to pardon without rebuking, and beautiful patience is to be patient without complaining.
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Beautiful Complain Harm Leaving
The sign of the people of bid’ah is that they do not follow the salaf.
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People Religion
Avoiding the temptation to sin and being patient upon that, is greater than being patient whilst being afflicted with trials.
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Avoid Greatness Patience Religious Temptation
The one who is [truly] imprisoned is the one whose heart is imprisoned from Allah and the captivated one is the one whose desires have enslaved him.
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Capture Desire Heart Himself Prison True
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
What really counts are good endings, not flawed beginnings.
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Beginning End Goodness
If you correct your hidden deeds subsequently, Allaah will correct your outward deeds.
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Action Correct God Hide Work Yourself
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.
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Death Heart Prayer Religious Water
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

Imprisoned is he whose heart is imprisoned from Allâh. Captured is he who is captured by his desires.

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