Inspiration from Past & Present
Trials and tribulation are like feeling the heat and cold, when one knows that they cannot be avoided, he will not feel anger at their onset, nor will he be distressed or disheartened.
—Ibn Taymiyyah [d. 728H/1328CE]
(Read on pg 27, Ibn Taymiyyah, Disease of the Hearts and Their Cures. Daar us-Sunnah Publishers. UK: 2006.)
If you do not taste the sweetness of an action in your heart, suspect it, for the Lord, Exalted is He, is the Appreciative.
—Ibn Taymiyyah [d. 728H/1328CE]
(Read on pg 26, Ibn Taymiyyah, Disease of the Hearts and Their Cures. Daar us-Sunnah Publishers. UK: 2006.)
If I were to backbite anyone it would be my parents, for they are most deserving of my good deeds.
—’Abdullah ibn al-Mūbārak [d. 181H]
O how poor is man, if he were to fear Hell to the same extent he fears poverty, then he would surely enter Paradise.
—Yahya ibn Mu`adh
(Abdul Malik Al-Qasim, “The Life of This World Is a Transient Shade”, IIPH)