al-Hasan
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- "I have known
people and kept company with groups who neither rejoiced when the things
of this world came to them, nor grieved when they lost anything in this
world. The life of this world was more insignificant to them than dust.
One of them might live for a year or for sixty years without ever having
a garment that would entirely cover him, and without ever having anything
that would come between him and the ground, and without ever having any
food that he could ask to be prepared for him in his own home. When night
came, they would be on their feet, with their foreheads flat against the
earth, tears rolling down their cheeks, secretly calling on Allah to save
them on the Day of Judgement. If they did something good, they never stopped
being grateful for it, and they were always asking Allah to forgive them
for it. By Allah, they were not safe from wrong actions, and were saved
only by their constant turning in repentance. May Allah be pleased with
them and grant them His mercy..."
- "Do not sit
idle, for indeed Death is seeking you!"
- When al-Hasan
finished his hadith, he would say, "O Allah, you see our hearts full of
idolatry, pride, hypocrisy, showing-off, reputation, doubt and uncertainty
in your deen. O Turner of hearts, make our hearts firm in Your deen and
make our deen Straight Islam!"
- 'Umara ibn
Mihran said that al-Hasan was asked, "Why do you not visit the rulers and
command them to the correct and forbid them the incorrect?" He replied,
"'The believer should not waste himself. Their swords precede our tongues
when we speak. They speak thus with their swords." And he made a striking
gesture with his hand.
- "When a young
man is devout, we do not recognise him by his speech. We recognise him by
his actions. That is beneficial knowledge."
- It is related
that when al-Hasan saw
a funeral, he would say, "Praise belongs to Allah who has not made me part
of that which is snatched away." He would not relate anything that day.
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