The Real Prisoner

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The Real Prisoner

The real prisoner is someone whose heart is imprisoned from his Lord; the true captive is someone captured by his passions.

—Ibn Taymiyyah [d. 728AH]

(Al-hadiyyah fi Mawaith Al-Imam Ibn Taymiyyah, pg. 21)

(Read on pg 58, Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, The Invocation of God. The Islamic Texts Society. UK:2000 .)

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