Inspiration from Past & Present
A righteous man passed by a group of people engaged in vain conversation on the day of Eid. He said to them: “If you did well in Ramadan, this is not gratitude for goodness. And, if you wronged, this is not the way of one who has erred with The Most Merciful.”
(Read on pg 144, Aa’id Abdullah al Qarni, Thirty Lessons For Those Who Fast. Message of Islam. UK:1999.)
I reject from my heart
With utmost rejection
Incompletion from those
Capable of perfection
(from ‘Sayd Al-Khatir’, ‘The Querry of the Mind’, by Ibn al-Jawzi on ‘Taqwa, The Very Best Guardian)
If one has no manners, one has no knowledge, if one has no patience, one has no deen, and if one has no piety, one cannot come near to Allah.
—Al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī [d 110H/728CE]
(Al Jumuah magazine, Volume 22, Issue 02, Safar 1431H)
Al Aswad ibn Yazid used to stand in prayer for most of the night. Some of his friends advised him to relax for at least a small portion of the night. He told them it is this very relaxation he is in search of; meaning the Hereafter.
(Read on pg 122, Aa’id Abdullah al Qarni, Thirty Lessons For Those Who Fast. Message of Islam. UK:1999.)