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IBRAHEEM IBN ADHAM - may Allah have mercy
on him - a third century scholar, a teacher and a companion of Sufyaan
ath-Thawree, was asked about the saying of Allah - the Most High:
"AND YOUR LORD SAYS: 'CALL
ON ME I WILL ANSWER YOUR PRAYER..." [Soorah Ghaafir (40): 60]
"We supplicate and we are not
answered." So he said to them:
- "You know Allaah, Yet you do not
obey Him,
- You recite the Qur'aan, Yet do not
act according to it,
- You know Shaitaan (Devil), Yet you
have agreed with him,
- You proclaim that you love the
Messenger of Allah, (pbuh), Yet you abandon his Sunnah,
- You proclaim your love for Paradise,
Yet you do not act to gain it,
- You proclaim your fear for the Fire,
Yet you do not prevent yourselves from sins,
- You say "Indeed death is true", Yet
you have not prepared for it,
- You engage yourselves with finding
faults with others, Yet you do not look at your faults,
- You eat of that which Allah has
provided for you, Yet you do not thank Him,
- You bury your dead, Yet you do not
take a lesson from it."
Taken from Khushoo fis-Salaat (p.62) of
Ibn Rajab al-Hanbalee - rahimullah. |
