Luminous quotes

Beware of raising your needs to someone who has closed his door to you and placed a veil on you. You should ask your needs to someone whose door is open to you until the Day of Resurrection. He asked you to pray to him and promised you an answer.

Do not ask your brother for a single day, and ask the one whose doors do not block God. He becomes angry if you abandon his question. When the sons of Adam ask, he becomes angry, so make your question to God, for it is only because of the grace of our Lord that we turn.

I looked at the beginning of this matter from who it was, and then it was from God Almighty. I said, “Who should it complete?” and then it was from God Almighty. And I looked at what its angel was, and then its angel was supplication.

Why should we complain about our poverty to someone like us and not ask our Lord to reveal it?

By God, if you were so desperate for creation that you did not want anything from them, your master would give you everything you wanted

If a believer is slow to find relief and despairs of it after his many supplications and entreaties, and the effect of being answered does not appear on him, he returns the blame to himself and says to her, “I only came before you, and if there was any good in you, I would have answered.”

Do you mock supplication and disdain it, and you do not know what the supplication has done? The arrows of the night are penetrating, but they have a term, and the term has a decree, so He withholds them when my Lord wills, and sends them forth when the decree is carried out.

Let us believe that the heart fluctuates faster than fate if it gathers boiling water

Sit with us and we will believe for an hour

Because a hundred times greater is more beloved to me than giving one hundred dinars in charity

If there was a man with a little yoke on his lap to give it and another who remembered God, the one who remembered would be better

Whoever among you thinks that he will spend money, and fears that the enemy will fight him, and fears that the night will overwhelm him, let him often say, “There is no god but God,” and “Glory be to God,” and praise be to God, and God is great.

A crowd of people remembering God, except that God mentioned them in a gathering more honorable and honorable than them, and no people dispersed without mentioning God Almighty in their assembly except that it would be a regret for them on the Day of Resurrection.

Whoever remembers God most is innocent of hypocrisy

The Companions of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, preferred lowering the voice when fighting, reciting the Qur’an, and at funerals

Dhikr is obedience to God. So whoever obeys God has remembered Him, and whoever does not obey Him is not a dhikr, even though glorification and recitation of the Qur’an are frequent.

Dhikr gatherings heal hearts

I do what I want

I don't care if I become what I like or what I hate, because I do not know what is good in what I love or what I hate

A man seeks God’s advice and chooses for him, but he becomes angry with his Lord, and soon he looks at the outcome and finds it is better for him.

We pray to God for what we love, and if what we hate happens, we do not contradict God Almighty in what He loves

I envy a man whose livelihood is subsistence and he is content with it

I am more envious of this, by God, than that he wakes up hungry and goes hungry in the evening while he is satisfied with God Almighty

If you are not satisfied with God, how can you ask Him to be satisfied with you?

I seek refuge in God if I have a love for any matter that is contrary to the love of God, for that is not suitable for me in His affliction with me and His goodness to me.

Satisfaction and contentment

Whoever is satisfied with what God has apportioned for him is sufficient for him and God blesses him for it, and whoever is not satisfied is not satisfied with it and does not bless him for it.

If the pleasure of creation is difficult and cannot be attained, then the pleasure of God is easy and cannot be abandoned

By God, I will not give you any of your money, and it is the velvet that I left my house with

I am ashamed of God to ask in the house of God other than God

I did not ask those who own it, so how can I ask those who do not have it?

By God, no one else has a shirt

People say Malik bin Dinar is an ascetic, but the ascetic is Omar bin Abdul Aziz, who was given this world and left it

My son, if you seek wealth, seek it with contentment. If you do not have conviction, then perfection is not sufficient

A man asked Abdullah bin Omar bin Al-Aas, may God be pleased with them both, and he said: Are we not among the poor immigrants? Abdullah said to him: Do you have a woman to take shelter with? He said: Yes. He said: Do you have a place to live in? He said: Yes. He said: You are one of the rich. He said: I have a servant. He said: You are one of the kings.

The people of wealth eat, we eat, they drink, we drink, they wear, we wear, they ride, and we ride. They have a wealth of wealth that they look at and we look at with them. They have to account for it, and we are free of it.

They sought comfort and found it in despair

If you have a content heart, then you and the owner of the world are equal

I saw contentment as the head of wealth, but I became clinging to its tails, and no one saw me at his door, nor did anyone see me preoccupied with it, so I became rich without a dirham, a command over the people similar to kingship.

A man who has a large house, a good wife, and a comfortable livelihood is better than me. He does not know us, so we would be harmed, and he does not need us, so we would be despised.

Whoever abstains from this world, calamities will be easy for him

We followed the deeds and did not find anything more effective in seeking the afterlife than asceticism in this world

Praise be to God, who made the rich flee to us upon death, and we do not like to flee to them upon death. Someone would say, “I wish I were one of the vagabonds of the immigrants.”

Whoever honors himself, the world has no value for him

Advise me. He said: I advise you to be a king in this world and the hereafter. He said: How? He said: Renounce this world

It is forbidden for your hearts to attain the sweetness of faith until you renounce this world

If a servant abstains from this world, God will grow wisdom in his heart and free his tongue and sight from the faults, illnesses and cures of the world.

Asceticism is not eating coarse food and wearing coarse clothing, but it is shortening hope and anticipating death

It was said to him, may God have mercy on him: Can a man be an ascetic and have money? He said yes, if he is afflicted with patience, and if he is given he is grateful.

If a man becomes ascetic, let him not make his asceticism a torment for the people

I said to my father Hazem, may God have mercy on him, one day that I find something that saddens me. He said, “What is it, my nephew?” I said, “Love of the world,” and he said to me, “Know, my nephew, that this is something. I do not blame myself for loving something that God Almighty has loved for me, because God Almighty has made this world beloved to us. But let us blame ourselves for something other than this, so that its love does not call us to take anything from something that God hates, or to withhold anything from something that God loves. If we do that, our love for it will not harm us.”

It is not part of the love of the world to demand from it what is necessary

If you want from it what is sufficient for you, then a little of it will enrich you, and what is little and enough is better than what is abundant and detrimental

Do not do it, for I wanted what I wanted, and the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, used to give me the perfume, and I would say, “I will give him more for him than I do.” Until he once gave me money, so I said, “I will give him more for him than for me.”

If you are given something without asking, eat and give in charity

For this reason, Ibn Omar, may God be pleased with him, would not ask anything from anyone and would not return anything I gave him

The Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, used to accept the gift and reward it. I think that he accepted the gift

Praise slaughter

A man disparages himself in public while praising her in private

Do not be deceived by the abundance of people's praise of yourself, for your work is sincere to you