Polishing the Heart

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"The heart is tarnished by two things: heedlessness and sin. 

It is polished by two things: Remembrance (of Allah Ta'ala) and asking forgiveness (Istighfaar)."

~ Ibn Al-Qayyim (Rahmatullahi ‘alayh)

Prefer Allah to all others

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Patience

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“It is difficult to be patient, but to waste the rewards for patience is worse.”

Hazrat Abu Bakr as-Siddeeq (Radhiyallaahu ‘anhu)

To perform Tahajjud

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Money

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“Money is the type of companion that will not benefit you, 

unless it leaves you.”

Hazrat Hasan Al-Basri (Rahmatullahi ‘alayh)

Dunya | Like a Shadow

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To know who we are

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‘Whoever wishes to know who he is, let him 

present himself to the Qur’aan.’

[It categorises both the good and the bad.]

~ Hazrat Hasan Basri (Rahmatullahi ‘alayh)

Detachment

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“Detachment is not that you should own nothing; 

but that nothing should own you.”

~ Hazrat Ali Abi Taalib (RA)