If you do not prefer the pleasure meeting Allah alone – upon all you desire, then you are not patient.
If you do not purify yourself from ignorance and obscenity – then event the shores of the Euphrates will not purify you.
If you have nothing to aspire from someone – then you will not attain what is in his land.
If you have insight to the Dunya – for indeed your attitude towards it is like the traveling wayfarer.
And what is logic – except one of true reason – and the people are none but between being wicked or righteous.
And a person is not magnified except the well-mannered one – to those people of firm intellect and insight.
I see you of the same level of the young juvenile – while you are old from the oldest of the elders
As if you have not buried a close friend – or won’t one day be amongst death’s presence.
And I have not seen anything being forgotten more than death – you see it and the first ones who should remember do not remember.
And indeed a person sells his religion for the Dunya – getting back from it a deal full of loss.
And every person that does not do trade for his home in the hereafter – then he is not a trader.
And the Dunya to Allah does not equal the wing of a mosquito – or price of a small bird.
So He is not pleased to reward the believer in the Dunya – Nor is He pleased to punish the disbeliever in the Dunya.
This is the English Translation of the poem which is in the Arabic language by Abul Atahiya, the Legend from Baghdad.
When you learn, you lead others aright and save them from captivity. But you don’t just learn anything, you seek beneficial knowledge and wisdom from the right sources with the proper ethics. Look for the write up on ethics of seeking knowledge. And as usual, when you sleep over the bed of heedlessness in your youth, then be sure to tread on the path of regret during old age. Let me hasten to reiterate that seeking knowledge frees you from the captivity and prison of ignorance and darkness. So my good friends, brothers and sisters in Islam, seek beneficial knowledge and wisdom with the correct ethics, aiming to benefit society with the knowledge and hoping for reward from the Almighty Allah. Laziness is very attractive to ignorance, so wherever there is laziness in the quest for knowledge, be certain to find ignorance married happily to Mr. laziness, making a perfect couple with darkness as their residence. Corrections, criticisms and the like are welcome as usual. They keep me on my toes and on the look out for much information. Since information is key in this day and age.
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