Be fair to your ears, for God has given you two ears so that you can hear more than you say.
God grants knowledge to the happy and deprives it of the miserable.
If you mention the dead, count yourself as one of them.
Be fair to your ears, for God has given you two ears so that you can hear more than you say.
Whoever consults those with intellects will be illuminated by the lights of intellects.
Perfect piety is for a servant to fear God, to the point that he fears Him by an atom's weight, and to the point that he abandons some of what he sees as lawful, for fear that it will be forbidden, a veil between him and the forbidden.
If you mention the dead, count yourself as one of them.
Knowledge is achieved by learning, and dreaming is achieved by dreaming. He who aspires to good will be given it, and he who aspires to evil will be protected from it.
If you knew what awaited you after death, you would not have eaten lustfully, nor would you have drunk any drink lustfully, nor would you have entered a house to seek shade.
You will not be a scholar until you are educated, and you will not be educated until you act according to what you know. My greatest fear, when I stand up for judgment, is that it will be said to me: What did you do with what you taught?
It is a combination of one of two things: either he was treated in it with obedience to God Almighty and he will be happy with what you made miserable, or he was treated in it with disobedience to God Almighty and he will be miserable with what you collected for him, and neither of them is worthy of being cool with him on your back and preferring him over yourself. Hope for those of them who have passed away for God’s mercy and trust for those of them who remain in God’s provision. Glory be to Him and peace.
He wrote to a brother of his: As for now, you are not involved in any matter of this world except that he had family before you and he will have family after you, and you have nothing of it except what you have given for yourself, so give it preference over the one who is reconciling with your children, for you are prioritizing the one who does not excuse you and accumulating to the one who does not praise you.
Give your honor for the day of your poverty, and no believer takes a dose more beloved to God Almighty than the anger he suppresses, so pardon, may God honor you.
He passed by a man who had committed a sin and they were cursing him. He said, “What do you think if you found it in a heart, would you not have extracted it?” They said, “Yes.” He said, “Do not curse your brother, and thank God Almighty who has pardoned you.” They said, “Should we not hate him?” He said, “I hate his work, so if he abandons it, he is my brother.”
The signs of an ignorant person are three things: arrogance, speaking frequently about things that do not concern him, and forbidding something and doing it.
Why do I see your scholars leaving, and your ignorant people not learning? ...Learn, for the scholar and the learner receive equal reward.
Goodness is not that your wealth and children increase, but goodness is that your dreams become great, your knowledge increases, and you compete with people in worshiping God Almighty.
You will either enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong, or God will impose upon you an unjust authority who will not respect your elders nor have mercy on your young ones, and your best people will pray against him, but they will not be answered. If you seek help, you will not be helped, and you will ask forgiveness, but you will not be forgiven.
If an obedient person obeyed his Lord behind seven doors, God would take away the effects of his obedience to people, and if a disobedient person disobeyed God behind seven doors, God would take away the effects of his disobedience to people.
If your brother changes and deviates from what he used to be, do not leave him because of that. Your brother is sometimes crooked and sometimes straight.
Worship God as if you see Him, and count yourself among the dead, and beware of supplicating the oppressed, and know that a little that enriches you is better than much that distracts you, and For righteousness does not fade away, and transgression is not forgotten.
There are three things that I love and that people hate: poverty, sickness, and death. I love poverty out of humility to my Lord, and death out of longing for my Lord, and sickness is atonement. For my sin.
Pray two rak'ahs in the darkness of the night due to the darkness of the grave.
Whoever does not know the blessing of God upon him except in his food and drink, then his knowledge is limited and his torment is present, and whoever is not rich in this world has no world.
If a man escaped from his livelihood as he escapes from death, his livelihood would overtake him as death overtakes him.
How easy it is for God to create creation if they abandon His command.
Abu Darda said to his camel upon death: O camel, do not dispute with me before your Lord. I did not burden you beyond your capacity.
Remember God at every tree and bush, perhaps it will come on the Day of Resurrection and bear witness to you.
If I get angry, please me, and if I get angry, I will please you. If we are not like this, we will soon separate.
It is part of the jurisprudence of a man to be kind in his living, and it is the jurisprudence of a man to know whether he is increasing or decreasing?! Part of the jurisprudence of a man is that he should be aware of his faith and not change it! It is part of a person’s jurisprudence to know the tendencies of Satan and it is part of a person’s jurisprudence that his good deeds please him and his bad deeds displease him.
Whoever speaks a lot, his lies will increase, whoever swears a lot, his sins will increase, and whoever quarrels a lot, his religion will not be safe.
Whoever is blessed with a grateful heart, a remembering tongue, and a believing wife, then goodness will be bestowed upon him, and he will not neglect any good.
Were it not for three things, people would be fine: miserliness that is obeyed, desires that are followed, and a person’s admiration for himself.
The pinnacle of faith is four qualities: patience in judgment, contentment with destiny, sincerity in trusting, and submission to the Lord, glory be to Him.
Some people are keys to good and locks to evil, and for that they have a reward. And some people are keys to evil, locks to good, and they must therefore insist and think. An hour is better than a night’s sleep.
Woe to the one who does not know and acts once, and woe to the one who knows but does not act seventy times.
Your love for something blinds and deafens.
The thing I fear most when I stand on the account is that I will be told: You knew, so what did you do with what you knew?
Knowledge is threefold: whoever learns the first inch becomes arrogant, whoever learns the second inch becomes humble, and whoever learns the third inch knows that he did not know anything.
Learn knowledge before it is raised, for the disappearance of knowledge is the disappearance of scholars.
Pray to God for your good day; Perhaps He will respond to you on the day of your hardship.
He made me laugh three times and made me cry three times. . Make me laugh: He who hopes for this world and death seeks it and is heedless and does not ignore it. He who laughs is full of his being and does not know whether he is displeased with his Lord or satisfied.
Seek knowledge, and if you are unable, then love its people. If you do not love them, do not hate them. I command you to do the matter and I do not do it, but I hope for a reward in it.
Seek refuge in God from the humility of hypocrisy. They said: O Abu Darda, what is the humility of hypocrisy? He said: To see the body submissive and the heart not submissive.
O son of Adam, set your foot on the ground, for in a little while it will become your grave. Son of Adam, you are only days. Whenever a day passes, part of you goes. Son of Adam, if you were to slip in demolishing your life from the day your mother gave birth to you, he said, “There is no one but in his mind he decreases in his dream and his knowledge. That is because if the world brings him an increase.” In wealth, he remained happy and content, while day and night were constantly destroying his life, and it did not grieve him. This went astray. What is of use is wealth that increases and life that decreases.
Woe to every intercourse with his mouth open, as if he were crazy, seeing what people have but not seeing what God Almighty has... If he were able, he would connect night with day. Woe to him of severe reckoning and severe torment.
What a believer gives in charity is more beloved to God Almighty than a sermon that he gives to his people and then they part, and God Almighty has benefited them with it.
Become a scholar, learner, or listener, and be given the fourth and you will perish. I said, when it was said to Al-Hasan, “What is the fourth?” The innovator said.
