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Thursday, 24 November 2011

Glad tidings to the one

"Glad tidings to the one who leaves the dunya before it leaves him, prepares for his grave before he enters it, and pleases his Lord before he meets Him."
[Yahya ibn Muadh]


Ma’n ibn ‘Awn once said, ‘How often has a person faced a new day but yet failed to complete it, and how often has a person waited for tomorrow but yet failed to reach it? Were you to look carefully at the matter of death and its paths, you would have come to hate having hopes and its delusions.’


Hafiz Ibn Kathir narrated:

كان نقش خاتم عمر بن الخطاب رضي الله عنه : كفى بالموت واعظاً ياعمر
"The print on ‘Umar ibn al Khataab’s ring was: "Sufficient is death as an admonisher O Umar".
["Al-Bidaayah", 7/151].

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