Gifts of Knowledge

بل القلب لم يخلق إلا لذكر الله فما سوى ذلك فليس موضعا له

The Shaikh of the Shaikhs of Islaam Ibn Taymiyyah, Allaah have mercy on him, said, “The heart was only created to remember Allaah. Everything else has no place there.”
Risālatun fil-Qalb wa annahū Khuliqa li-Yuʿlama bihil-Ḥaqq wa Yustaʿmala fīmā Khuliqa lahū, p. 27.

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