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The entire religion revolves around acknowledging the truth and then acting upon it.

Ibn Taymiyyah

The disease that knowledge brings is arrogance, and the disease that worship brings is showing off
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Deep Knowledge Religious Sick Worship
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
Everyone experiences bouts of jealousy; but the dignified person conceals it, while the vulgar one acts upon it
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Act Action Experience Jealous Person
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
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
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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Adversity Blessing Forget Religious Remember Yourself
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
If you do good in secret, Allah will shower His good on you in public.
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God Goodness Kindness Yourself Secret
If you correct your hidden deeds subsequently, Allaah will correct your outward deeds.
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Action Correct God Hide Work Yourself
What really counts are good endings, not flawed beginnings.
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Beginning End Goodness
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
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
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
A man will never fear something besides Allah unless it be due to a disease in his heart.
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Fear Heart Men Sick
The sign of the people of bid’ah is that they do not follow the salaf.
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People Religion
The sincere hearts and the pious supplications are soldiers which can never be defeated.
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Defeat Heart Sincere Soldier Win
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
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
Remembrance is to the heart what water is to the fish. And what is the state of a fish that leaves water?
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Deep Heart Religious Remember Water
Men mixing with women is like fire mixing with wood.
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Fire Man Tree Woman
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
Don’t depend too much on anyone.
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Independent One Liner
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
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
When people help one another in sin and transgression, they finish by hating each other.
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Hate Helping People
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
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

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