Inspiration from Past & Present
The land of Paradise is flat and angels keep planting on it. When they slacken, they are asked “Why did you slacken?” They [the angels] say, ‘Our fellow has slackened.’ Do not make angels feel slackened, may Allah bestow His Mercy on all of you.
—Al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī [d 110H/728CE]
Hilyatu’l-Auliyaa by Abu-Nu’aym (9/276), who attributed this narration to Abu Sulayman ad-Darani
(Read on pg 44, Ibn al-Jawzi, Awakening From The Sleep of Heedlessness. Daar as-Sunnah Publishers. Birmingham: 2012.)
Knowledge and action are twins whose mother is high motivation.
—Ibn al-Jawzī [d. 597H/1201CE]
al-Yawaqit al-Jawziyyah, p. 95
(Read on pg 64, Ibn al-Jawzi, Awakening From The Sleep of Heedlessness. Daar as-Sunnah Publishers. Birmingham: 2012.)
Woe one time, to he who does not know and acts! If Allah wants, He will teach him. And Woe seven times to he who knows and does not act upon his knowledge!
—Abū Dardā’ [d. 32H]
Hilyatu’l-Auliyaa by Abu-Nu’aym (1/211)
(Read on pg 39, Ibn al-Jawzi, Awakening From The Sleep of Heedlessness. Daar as-Sunnah Publishers. Birmingham: 2012.)
Seventy sins are forgiven for an ignorant man, before one sin is forgiven for a scholar.
—al-Fuḍayl b. ‘Iyāḍ [d. 187H]
Hilyatu’l-Auliyaa by Abu-Nu’aym (8/110) & (7/286)
Are those who know equal to those who do not know? (Qur’an S. az-Zumar 39, v 9)
(Read on pg 38, Ibn al-Jawzi, Awakening From The Sleep of Heedlessness. Daar as-Sunnah Publishers. Birmingham: 2012.)