Necklaces around their necks
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Bismillahir Rahmaanir Raheem
Salih al-Marqadiyy once passed by some houses and said,“Where are your first inhabitants? And where are your old dwellers?” So he heard a voice saying,
“Their legacy has come to an end, underneath the soil their bodies have decomposed, and their actions remain like necklaces around their necks.”
It was said to Ibrahim ibn al-Adham, “How did you attain zuhd (asceticism [doing without worldly comforts])?” “With three things”, he said. “I saw that the grave is lonesome and that I would have no companion therein; I saw that the path is long while I had no provisions; and I saw that the Omnipotent would be the Judge while I had no valid argument (in my defence).”
A poet said,
“It is an obligation upon people to repent.
But leaving sins is even more of an obligation.
Patience in the midst of hardships is difficult to bear.
But losing the opportunity for reward is more difficult to bear.
Time is indeed perplexing in the way it passes.
Yet people’s heedlessness is more perplexing.
Everything that is due to arrive is indeed close,
Yet death is closer than everything else.”
- Imam ibn Hajar Al-Asqalani [rahimahullah], Preparing for the Day of Judgement.
Indeed Allah is a witness over us, and Allah knows best.
In the care of Allah [swt],
Wassalaamu’alaikum wa rahmatullah
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A short but very effective post - Thank you.
hey, why do you do that?