Inspiration from Past & Present
This is my morning meal. If I do not take my morning meal, I lose my strength.
—Ibn Taymiyyah [d. 728AH] to Ibn al-Qayyim after performing the pre-dawn prayer and then sitting to remember Allah until sunrise.
[The same is reported of Ibn al-Qayyim by Ibn Hajar; likely an adopted practice from his teacher]
(Read on pg 50, Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, The Invocation of God. The Islamic Texts Society. UK:2000 .)
Remembrance is to the heart what water is to the fish. And what is the state of a fish that leaves water?
—Ibn Taymiyyah [d. 728AH]
(Read on pg 50, Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, The Invocation of God. The Islamic Texts Society. UK:2000 .)
Doubtless, a heart grows tarnished like brass or silver, and its polish is by remembrance, which may make it shine like a crystal mirror. So when one neglects the remembrance it tarnishes, and when he returns it shines. Since the heart is tarnished by two things- heedlessness and sin- it is polished by two things: remembrance and asking forgiveness.
—Ibn al-Qayyim [d. 751H/1350CE]
(Read on pg 47, Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, The Invocation of God. The Islamic Texts Society. UK:2000 .)
Islam will be destroyed by the mistakes of scholars, the arguments of the hypocrites who misinterpret the Qur’an to support their views, and misleading rulers.
—’Umar Ibn Al-Khattab [d. 23AH]
Mahd as-Sawab, 2/717.
(Read on pg 333, Dr. ‘Ali Muhammad as-Sallabi, ‘Umar Ibn Al-Khattab: His Life & Times Vol. 1. International Islamic Publishing House. Riyadh:2007 .)