Posted by shadows15 in Amazing Quotes!, Personality Development, Weekly Wisdom.
Tags: naseeha
Here is a beautiful quote on the value of not just our day, but each and every breath we take. I remember hearing in a lecture that each and every breath that is not taken for the sake of Allah will be a cause for regret on the Day of Judgement. If that is the case, then how about our entire lives that are wasted in pursuit of trivial things of no benefit in dunya and akhira?
“Each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, since each of them is irreplaceable and, once gone, can never be retrieved. Do not be like the deceived fools who are joyous because each day their wealth increases while their life shortens. What good is an increase in wealth when life grows ever shorter? Therefore be joyous only for an increase in knowledge or in good works, for they are your two companions who will accompany you in your grave when your family, wealth, children and friends stay behind.”
-Imam Ghazali
Sometimes you might ask someone “How is your day?” to which some will reply by answering “same thing, different day!” This is a response that is truly astonishing because these people have clearly not understood the importance of their time, hence their belitting the value of their day. They see the passing of days as insignificant, thus their lack of enthusiasm to better themselves and their surroundings. Each day should be looked at longingly,it should be seen as a day of opportunity, a day in which one can either free himself from the pits of the fire or earn himself the gardens of paradise. If someone does not see his day in this way, then soon will come a time wherein his soul will be snatched away, leaving him no time to do good deeds and he will cry out:”My Lord, Return me to my life prior so that I may do good!”
A poet said:
“Consider the case of a person who possesses
the whole world, can he take with him in the grave more
than cotton and a shroud?”
Tags: Gems and Jewels, Islam, tarbiyyah
Abu ‘Uthmaan Sa’eed bin Ismaa’eel An-Naysaaburi said:
“Whoever governs himself by the Sunnah – in word and deed – will speak with wisdom. But whoever governs himself according to his own desires will speak heresies, because Allah Tabaaraka wa Ta’aalaa said:
“And if you obey him (the Messenger) you will be guided” [Surat An-Noor: 54]
- Abu Nu’aym in Al-Hilyah 10/244, and others.
After mentioning this and other similar narrations, Shaykh Al-Islaam Ibn Taymiyyah said:
“It is as they said, for if a person does not follow what the Messenger came with he will act according to his own wishes. Thus he will be one who follows his desires without guidance from Allaah.”
- Minhaaj As-Sunnah 5/117
Imaam Ahmad – Allaah have mercy in him – said:
“[Voluntary] bachelorhood has nothing to do with Islaam. The Prophet – Allaah’s peace and blessings be upon him – married fourteen women, and he died being married to nine of them. If Bishr b. Al-Haarith had married, his affairs would be complete. If people left marrying no one would go to battle or go on pilgrimage, and such-and-such wouldn’t happen.”
He went on to say:
“The Prophet – Allaah’s peace and blessings be upon him – would wake in the morning and his family would have nothing to eat and go to bed at night and they would have nothing to eat, [yet] he died married to nine wives, he chose marriage and encouraged others to marry.”
Imaam Ahmad – Allaah have mercy in him – also said:”There is nothing better for a woman than a man, and there is nothing better for a man than a woman.”.
Abu Bakr Al-Marrudhi, Kitaab Al-Wara’ p116-117.
Tags: akhlaaq, tarbiyyah
Ponder over this:
{“Shall We inform you of the greatest losers in respect of their deeds? Those whose efforts have been wasted in this life while they thought that they were acquiring good by their deeds!”} [al-Kahf; 103-104]
…and this hadith:
“If a man were to be dragged on his face from the day he was born until the day he dies in order to please Allah, then on the Day of Resurrection, he will not consider this to have been sufficient to gain Allah’s Pleasure.”
['Sahih al-Jami''; # 5249]
…and this statement of Ibn Taymiyyah:
“Verily, I constantly renew my Islam until this very day, as up to now, I do not consider myself to have ever been a good Muslim.”
[Narrated by Ibn al-Qayyim in 'Madarij as-Salikin'; 1/218]
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