Praying two rak’at with contemplation is better than praying all night while the heart is heedless.

—Ibn Abbas

[Ibn al-Mubarak (Book of Zuhd p.403), Muhammad ibn Nasr (Book of Qiyam-ul-Layl, p. 60)]

(Read on pg 68, Ibn al-Jawzi, Disciplining The Soul. Daar as-Sunnah Publishers. Birmingham: 2011.)