Archive for December 15th, 2006
The Lion & The Fly
Shaykh Ibn AtÄ’allÄh al-Iskandarī—may AllÄh bless his soul—said:
The person who pays too much attention to the life of this world while neglecting to prepare for the life to come is like a man being attacked by a lion. Imagine that the lion is poised to pounce upon him when a fly suddenly lands on his [...]