O miserable one!

Imaam Fudayl Ibn Iyaad Rahimahullaah said:

“O miserable one! You are disobedient yet you see yourself as a good-doer; you are ignorant yet you see yourself as a scholar; you are miserly yet you see yourself as a generous person; you are an idiot yet you see yourself as a sensible person, and your lifespan is short yet your hopes are prolonged.”

Imaam Dhahabi Rahimahullaah said:

I swear by Allaah, (Fudayl) spoke the truth! “You (O miserable one) are an oppressor yet you see yourself as one who is oppressed; you eat haraam yet you see yourself as one who fears (Allaah); you are a rebellious evil person yet you see yourself as someone just; you seek knowledge for the sake of the worldly things yet you see yourself as one who seeks it for the sake of Allaah.”

[Source:Siyar A’laam Nubulaa: 8/440]

“This Is Your World That You Strive To Gain”

Abul-Ashhab related that one day ‘Umar ibn Al-Khaṭṭāb – Allāh have mercy on him – and a group of his companions passed by a pit that was used for the disposal of sewage and garbage. For some reason, ‘Umar was forced to stop for a short while beside the pit; he – Allāh have mercy on him – soon noticed looks of disgust and nausea on the faces of his Companions, so he said to them:

“This is your world that you strive to gain and that you cry over.”

— Az-Zuhd, Imām Aḥmad (p.118)

“They are patient , and in their Lord they put their trust”Holy Qur’an, al-Ankabut 59

“They are patient , and in their Lord they put their trust”
Holy Qur’an, al-Ankabut 59

I Love you 😭 Oh Allah!

“If You [Allaah] punish me, I love you. And if You have mercy on me, I love you.”‘Utbah ibn Ghulam, ash-Shu’ab #475

How many people have caused misery to their own children

Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allah have mercy on him) said:

“How many people have caused misery to their own children, the apples of their eyes, in this world and in the Hereafter, by neglecting them, not disciplining them, encouraging them to follow their whims and desires, thinking that they were honouring them when they were in fact humiliating them, that they were being merciful to them when in fact they were wronging them.

They have not benefited from having a child, and they have made the child lose his share in this world and in the Hereafter.

If you think about the corruption of children you will see that in most cases it is because of the parents.”

(Tuhfat al-Mawlood, p. 146)

Blessings behind Trials

Pleasing Allah

Al Hasan al Basri رحمه الله was asked:“Which would you choose first: to pray two raka’at? Or to enter Paradise?”

He answered “I would pray two raka’at first.”

When asked “why?”, he replied:

“Because praying two raka’at pleases Allah, whereas entering Paradise pleases me. And a polite slave will choose what pleases Allah over what pleases himself.”