'Food for the Soul' Category
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 [...]Sufism
The Rules of the Sufi Way
The basic rules of the way of Sufism are five:
(1) having Godfearingness privately and publicly, (2) living according to the Sunnah in word and deed, (3) indifference to whether others accept or reject one, (4) satisfaction with Allaah Most High in scarcity and plenty, and (5) turning to Allaah in happiness or [...]Earning the love of Allaah
On the authority of Abu al-’Abbas Sahl bin Sa’d al-Sa’idi (رضي الله عنهم) who said:
A man came to the Prophet (صلي الله عليه وسلم) and said: “O Messenger of Allaah, direct me to an act which if I do it, [will cause] Allaah to love me and people to love me.†He (صلي الله عليه [...]The punishment for the `arif
Dhun-Nûn (Al-Misrî) said, “For everything there is a punishment. And the punishment of the one who knows Allah (the ‘aarif) is being cut off from the remembrance of Allah.â€