What We Lose We Find

 
 

The Companion Abū Al-Dardāʾ – Allāh be pleased with him – said: Knowledge only comes from learning, and forbearance comes from trying to be forbearing, and whoever seeks what is good will be given it, and whoever avoids evil will be protected from it.

 

It is reported that ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbbās – Allāh be pleased with them – said: Wear what you wish and eat what you wish, as long as you avoid two practices: extravagance and haughtiness.

 

It is reported that Al-Nuʿmān b. Bashīr – Allāh be pleased with him – said: The example of the son of Adam and death is that of a man who has three friends. He says to one of them: “What do you have?” [The first friend] replies, “I have your wealth, take from it what you wish, and whatever you do not take, you will no longer possess.”

Then he asks the second, “What do you have?” He replies, “I will look after you, and when you die, I will bury you and then leave you.”

The man then asks the third, “What do you have?” He replies, “I will be with you wherever you go.”

[Al-Nuʿmān b. Bashīr] said, “As for the first one, it is the wealth of a person: whatever he uses is his, and whatever he does not use is not. As for the second, it is a man’s family and kin: when he dies they take care of him, then they leave him.

As for the third, it is a man’s actions (habits): wherever he goes (before and after death), they go with him.”