• One considers himself as belonging to the next world and not this world.  He is a stranger in this world anxious to reach his abode in the Hereafter
• One continues to be upset with himself anytime he commits a sin until he finally and completely repents to Allah
• One is more upset and unhappy if he misses his daily recitation of the Qur’an and dhikr, than if he had lost his wealth
• One finds greater pleasure worshiping Allah than any pleasure in eating and drinking
• One’s worries and concerns about this world leave him whenever he begins his formal prayers
• One’s only concern and worries are about Allah and doing deeds only for His sake
• One is more concerned and stingy about wasting time than a greedy person is with respect to his wealth
• One is more concerned about the correctness of his deeds than with the performance of the deeds themselves

—Ibn al-Qayyim [d. 751H/1350CE]

[Ighaatha al-Lahfaa, vol. 1, pp.70-73.  Quoted in Commentary on the Forty Hadith of al-Nawawi, vol 1, pp. 471-472]

(Read on pg 61-62. Dr. Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips, A Commentary on Ibn Taymiyyah’s Essay on the Heart. Dalwah Corner Bookstore. Kuala Lampur: 2008.)