When Love Hurts

Ibn Taimiyyah, may Allāh have mercy on him, said:

Know that everyone who loves something for other than Allah’s [sake], that thing he loves will inevitably come to harm him.

Majmūʿ Al-Fatāwá, vol. 1, p. 28.

TN: Title mine.

Translated by Mikail ibn Mahboob Ariff