When someone offends me, I think it’s a gift from Allah (god). He (Allah) is teaching me humility.
IBN TAYMIYYAH
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Ibn Taymiyyah on humility
Ibn Taymiyyah45 quotes“When someone offends me, I think it’s a gift from Allah (god). He (Allah) is teaching me humility.”
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Avoiding the temptation to sin and being patient upon that, is greater than being patient whilst being afflicted with trials.
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Ibn TaymiyyahIbn Taymiyyah Sins are like chains and locks preventing their perpetrator from roaming the vast garden of Tawheed and reaping the fruits of righteous actions.
Ibn TaymiyyahIbn Taymiyyah Sins cause harm and repentance removes the cause.
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Ibn TaymiyyahIbn Taymiyyah A believer to another believer is like two hands, one washes the other (correcting each other).
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Ibn TaymiyyahIbn Taymiyyah 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.
Ibn TaymiyyahIbn Taymiyyah Make tawba not just for sins you’ve committed, but also for obligations you haven’t fulfilled.
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Ibn TaymiyyahIbn Taymiyyah Imprisoned is he whose heart is imprisoned from Allâh. Captured is he who is captured by his desires.
Ibn TaymiyyahIbn Taymiyyah Everyone experiences bouts of jealousy; but the dignified person conceals it, while the vulgar one acts upon it
Ibn TaymiyyahIbn Taymiyyah A calamity that makes you turn to Allah is better for you then a blessing which makes you forget the remembrance of Allah
Ibn TaymiyyahIbn Taymiyyah The sincere hearts and the pious supplications are soldiers which can never be defeated.
Ibn TaymiyyahIbn Taymiyyah 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!
Ibn TaymiyyahIbn Taymiyyah When people help one another in sin and transgression, they finish by hating each other.
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