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IBRAHEEM IBN ADHAM - may Allaah have mercy on him - a third century scholar, a teacher and a companion of Sufyaan ath-Thawree, was asked about the saying of Allaah - 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, sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam, 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 - (rahimahullaah) Translator is unknown
Aboo Shaahir as-Salafee
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