Ibn al-Qayyim, may God have mercy on him, said: The state of the servant in the grave is like the state of the heart in the chest: bliss, torment, imprisonment, and release. So if you want to know your condition in your grave, look at the state of your heart in your chest! Oh God, fix my chest, ease my affairs, and guide me to your obedience.
Malik bin Dinar, may God have mercy on him, said: May God have mercy on a servant who said to himself: Aren’t you the owner of such-and-such? Aren't you the owner of this? Then he disparaged her, then he criticized her, then he forced her to commit to the Book of God Almighty, and he became her leader.
Ibn al-Qayyim, may God have mercy on him, said: If a true lover speaks, he speaks for God and by God, and if he is silent, he is silent for God, and if he moves, then by God’s command, and if he remains still, then his silence is seeking help to please God, so his love is for God, by God, and with God.. O God, grant us your love, the love of whoever loves you, and the love of an action that brings us closer to your love, O God. Fill our hearts with your love and keep us busy with your love from everyone else, O God, Amen.
On the authority of Muhammad bin Ka’b: If God wants good for a servant, He makes him ascetic in this world, makes him understand the religion, makes him see his faults, and whoever is given them is given the best of this world and the hereafter.
Ibn al-Qayyim, may God have mercy on him, said: God never closes a door to a servant with His wisdom, but opens two doors for him with His mercy.
He said: If God prevents you from doing something that you want and love, He will open other doors for you with His wisdom and mercy that are more beneficial for you! Do not be sad, do not despair, and be confident in God’s wisdom, justice, and mercy.
Ibn al-Jawzi, may God have mercy on him, said: Know that time does not remain constant in one state, as God Almighty said: “And these days We alternate them among the people.” Sometimes there is poverty, sometimes wealth, sometimes glory, sometimes humiliation, sometimes the followers rejoice, and sometimes the enemies gloat.. The happy one is the one who is in the first place. One in every case, which is fear of God Almighty, for if he is rich, it will beautify him, and if he becomes poor, the doors of patience will be opened for him, and if he is afflicted, the blessing will be completed upon him, and if he is afflicted, it will bear him... and it will not harm him if time brings him down or ascends, or makes him bare, or satiates him, or makes him hungry, because All of these things disappear and change, and piety is the origin of safety.
Ibrahim bin Adham saw a worried man and said to him: O man, I ask you about three things. You will answer me. The man said: Yes.. Then he said to him: Is something happening in this universe that God does not want? He said: No. Ibrahim said: Will anything that God has destined for you decrease from your provision? He said: No. Ibrahim said: Is a moment missing for you that God has written in your life? He said: No, and Ibrahim bin Adham said to him: So what is the worry??!
Ibn al-Qayyim, may God have mercy on him, said: O son of Adam, there are sins between you and God that only God, Glory be to Him, knows about. If you would like Him to forgive you, then forgive His servants, for the reward is of the type of work.
The imams of Islam, Sufyan al-Thawri and others, said: Heresy is more beloved to Satan than disobedience, because heresy is not repented of, and sin is repented of. The meaning of their saying that heresy is not repented of is that the innovator who adopts a religion that neither God nor His Messenger has legislated has made his bad deeds pleasing to him and he sees it as good. He does not repent as long as he sees it as good, because the beginning of repentance is knowing that his action is bad in order to repent from it.
Some of the predecessors said: “Beware of sitting with evil people; It is your nature to steal from them and you do not know it.”
Sheikh Al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah, may God have mercy on him, said: It is astonishing that it is easy for a person to be cautious and cautious from eating forbidden things, injustice, adultery, theft, drinking alcohol, looking forbidden things, and so on.. And it is difficult for him to be cautious from the movement of his tongue, and how often we see a man who refrains from immorality, injustice, and his tongue. He ignores the symptoms of the living and the dead, and does not care what he says.
Ibn al-Qayyim, may God have mercy on him, said: “By God, it is difficult for a servant to know his intention in his work, so how can he gain control over the intentions of creation?”
Abdullah bin Al-Mubarak said: If a hadith comes to you from the Messenger of God, submit to it, not objecting, not evading, not raising suspicion, not interpreting falsely, and not contradicting texts with one another.
Sheikh Al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah said: Let the servant say a lot: There is no power nor strength except with God, for with it he bears burdens, endures horrors, and attains lofty conditions.
Some righteous people were asked: How did you become? He said: “This morning we have been blessed with countless blessings from God, despite many being transgressed. We do not know what to be thankful for: for the beautiful thing that was spread, or for the ugly thing that was concealed.”
Sufyan bin Abi Uyaynah was asked about the meaning of the Almighty’s saying: {And cooperate in righteousness and piety} and he said: It is that you act upon it, call to it, help in it, and point to it.
Sheikh Al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah, may God have mercy on him, said: The believer is always in a blessing from his Lord that requires gratitude, and in a sin that requires seeking forgiveness.
Al-Fudayl said: “Abandoning work for the sake of people is hypocrisy, and working for the sake of people is shirk, and sincerity means that God will protect you from both of them.”
Some of the predecessors said: If we wanted to be answered, we would pray for our brothers in the back of the unseen.. If you want something, pray for someone about it until you have something like it by praying to an angel.
Everyone who fears something other than God will have power over him, just as whoever loves with God someone other than Him will be punished by it, and whoever hopes with God other than Him will be forsaken on his part.
Abdullah bin Wahb said: “Every pleasure has only one pleasure, except worship, for it has three pleasures: if you are in it... if you remember it... and if you are given its reward.”
On the authority of Al-Hasan, may God have mercy on him, he said: Two days and two nights the likes of which creation has never heard: a night where you spend the night with the people of the graves and you did not spend the night before it, and a night on its morning on the Day of Resurrection, and a day when good tidings from God Almighty will come to you, either of Paradise or Hell, and a day when you will be given your letter in your right hand or in your left hand.
Sufyan Al-Thawri said: “Beware of the stomach, for it hardens the heart. Repress anger, and do not laugh too much, for it kills hearts.”
Ibn al-Qayyim said: The well-known saying is what the hearts know and do not deny, and forgiveness is the pardon of those who wronged you.
