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Ibrahim ibn Adham: “Your hearts have become dead due to ten things”
Ibrahim ibn Adham was asked about the saying of Allah the Exalted, ‘And Your Lord said, Supplicate to me and I will answer your supplication.’ “We supplicate but our prayers are not answered!” He...
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Ten advices from Five Scholars
It is said that a king gathered five scholars and ascetics and ordered each one to give a word of wisdom. Each one spoke and gave two pieces of wisdom and thus they became ten. The first one...
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Ten advises from a physician to cure the diseases of the heart
Al-Hasan al-Basri said, “One day I was walking with a young pious man in the narrow streets of Basra and its markets until we reached a physician sitting on a chair and around him were many men,...
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Everyday the earth calls out with 9 things- Anas Ibn Malik (radyAllahu`anhu)
Anas Ibn Malik (radyAllahu`anhu) said, “Everyday the earth calls out with nine things, saying, ‘O son of Adam! You strive on my surface and your destination is my stomach; you disobey [Allah] on my...
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Beware of the Hardness of the Heart!
Beware of the Hardness of the Heart, for it can lead you to the Fire. So protect your heart from becoming hard and all that which may case it to harden, and beware of turning away from the admonition...
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Balancing between Seeking Knowledge and Softening the Heart— Ibn al-Jawzi
Imam abu’l-Faraj ibn a-Jawzi, in his book Sayd al-Khaatir, wrote the following on the importance of softening the heart in the midst of talab al-’ilm (seeking knowledge): رأيت الاشتغال بالفقه وسماع...
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