A believer must forget complaint even at the moment when all afflictions and tribulations strike with all their might. They must consider the good that will ultimately come to them when they are patient, and thus maintain their repose.
When we see a funeral, we should be able to say, “It could have been me in that coffin today,” and thus engage in critical self-examination.
Mulla Jami’ says: “How can I not love my mother when she carried me first in her body, then in her arms, and then for a lifetime in her heart.”
Conscience and compassion is the identification of a Muslim.
Muhammad Bahâ’uddin Naqshband (qs) said: “On this path the disciple should be modest. People say that why there is no long fasting and difficult worship (riyâdhah) on this path? Is there anything more difficult than attaining modesty?”
One at the head of service must embrace service with a greater diligence and exertion than those working under them, so that they can lead by example.
When one becomes a friend of Allah Almighty, Allah endears them to the people.
‘Egotism’ and ‘pretence’ must give way to love, affection and struggle in a person of service.
If we wish for our child to be perfect, than we must strive to be perfect parents.
‘Egotism’ and ‘pretence’ must give way to love, affection and struggle in a person of service.
People of service must not deem success from themselves, but from their Lord, for ‘egotism’ and ‘pretence’ constitute the cancer of the path of service.
‘Ali, may Allah be well pleased with him, states: “Lead such (a blessed, spiritual life) that the people aspire to emulate you in your health, and feel deeply your absence after your passing.”
The worst of wastefulness is the waste of human beings.
The most pitiable of people are the pitiless oppressors. Thinking of the rueful end of those who know no pity and taking pity on them can only be the art of elevated souls.
Worldly bounties are like a double-edged blade. For those who know how to use them they are ornament, while a source of dissension and ruin for those fall prey to their lure and sink into heedlessness.
