Ibn Rajab quotes
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“If you are unable to compete with the pious in their good deeds, compete with the sinful in their repentance.”
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“Eid is not for the one who wears #new clothes. Eid is for the one whose obedience rises. Eid is not for the one with beautiful clothes and fine means of transport, Eid is for the one whose sins are forgiven.”
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“A sign that your good deed has been accepted is that you do more good deeds after it.”
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“A person does not show his actions to the creation except due to his ignorance of the Greatness of the Creator.”
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“If you do not have the power to compete with the best believers in good deeds, then compete with the sinners in asking for Allah’s forgiveness.”
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“When love firmly settles in the heart, the limbs will only act in obedience to Allah.”
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“Good manners is part of taqwa and you cannot have taqwa without good manners”
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“A sign that your good deed has been accepted is that you do more good deeds after it.”
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“In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain.”
Source : Naguib Mahfouz (2016). “The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street”, p.49, Everyman's Library
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“True repentance is to cease from sin.”
Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 509, 1895.
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“What the pundits call wishy-washiness, the Bible calls repentance.”
Source : David Dark (2009). “The Sacredness of Questioning Everything”, p.14, Zondervan
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