Wisdom From the Shaykh of Shaykhs - Group 5
49.) Only
God's Attributes are fit to praise His Essence.
50.)
Should the day come wherein I increase not in knowledge wherewith to draw nearer to God,
let the dawn of that day be accursed.
51.) May
the money-worshippers perish: may the belly-worshippers perish; may the sex-worshippers
perish; may the clothes-worshippers perish.
52.) Pray
without ceasing.
53.) Faith
consists of: profession of the tongue; verification of the heart; and, implementation by
the limbs.
54.) Every
person who riseth in the morning either doeth that which will be the means of one's
redemption or one's spiritual ruin.
55.)
Meekness and modesty are two branches of Iman (faith).
56.) Ahsan
(spiritual excellence) is when a person worships God as if one could see God, and even if
one is not able to see God, the individual knows, with certainty, that God, nonetheless,
sees the person.
57.)
Between a person and apostasy, there is only the giving of Salat (formal, ritual prayers).
58.) The
one who has fasted with Iman (faith) and Ihtisah (trust in Divine recompense), all that
person's previous sins will be forgiven.
59.) Many
are there among you who fast and, yet, gain nothing from it except hunger and thirst, and
many are there who pray throughout the night and, yet, gain nothing from it except
wakefulness.
60.) Allah
has not enjoined zakat (obligatory charity) except for the reason that the rest of your
wealth is cleansed through it.
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