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Detachment from the world

الزهد

Zuhd — traveling light through a world that is not your home.

The ethic of detachment — not renouncing the world but refusing to let it own the heart. Drawn from the lives of the prophets and the teachings of al-Ghazali and Ibn al-Qayyim.

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From the Pen of

Imam al-Ghazali

35 passages
  1. "Thus, anyone who sells this world for the hereafter is an ascetic in this world, and"

  2. "God placed all evil in a house and made its key the love of the world, and He placed all good in a house and made its key the renunciation of the world."

  3. "Sari said, I have practiced everything concerning renunciation, and attained what I desired, except renunciation of people."

  4. "and by Ibn al-Mubarak in Kitab al-Zuhd and Ibn Abi al-Dunya in Kitab al-Khaifin from al-Hassan in a Marfu form."

  5. "this world and organize it. Allah Almighty says, And do not forget your portion of this world,"

  6. "complete piety and asceticism, and complete righteousness in deeds, like the ascetic innovator"

  7. "Al-Fudayl said that renunciation in this world is contentment, specifically pointing to money."

  8. "and a detachment from this world. What becomes most important is what leads them to Allah and"

  9. "but through asceticism and detachment from worldly ties, emptying the heart of distractions,"

  10. "Some were asked about the people of Baghdad and they replied, their ascetic is truly ascetic"

  11. "O slaves of this world, how can one who cannot satisfy his desires of this world and whose"

  12. "to the ascetic, and the king inquired, How are you? The ascetic replied, Like other people"

  13. "The way to uproot the love of the world from the heart is to follow the path of asceticism"

  14. "Bundar added, If you see people of this world speaking of asceticism, know they are under"

  15. "Renunciation of this world, being a possessive king, was envied by Satan, so he prevented"

  16. "its sign is a return with asceticism towards this world and a longing for the hereafter,"

  17. "This world is immediate, and the hereafter is deferred, so this world is better and must"

  18. "he replied, By adhering to asceticism in this world. It seemed that the Messenger, peace"

  19. "The kingdom of this world is achieved through renunciation and contentment with little."

  20. "This world, the dunya, is the nearest of the two abodes and must be traversed to reach"

  21. "Leaving this world is inevitable. What is the measure of one's existence in this world"

  22. "This is the inner dunya, while the outer dunya is the physical entities we mentioned."

  23. "scholars of this world and the scholars of the hereafter. By scholars of this world,"

  24. "It would be better for your eyes to perish in this world than for you to enter the fire with vision only for it to be consumed by its flames."

  25. "The hadith of a youth from the Ansar, filled with fear of the fire until he was confined by it, was reported by Ibn Abi Dunya"

  26. "By holding on to envy, you are fulfilling your enemies' desires and harming yourself in both this world and the hereafter."

  27. "When it was affirmed he said so the one who laughs in this world and does not know to what he will return is more amazing"

  28. "On the day of resurrection, you may find yourself bankrupt of blessings, just as you were deprived in this world."

  29. "If you cannot reach the level of the greats in this world, you should not miss out on the reward of loving them."

  30. "fear, hope, poverty, asceticism, love, contentment, longing, reliance, contemplation, and self-accountability."

  31. "Conversely, weak knowledge results from heedlessness, love of this world, forgetfulness of the hereafter,"

  32. "The states we have mentioned, such as repentance, patience, asceticism, fear and hope, are preliminaries"

  33. "rightful for him, let him prepare his seat in the hellfire, was narrated by Ahmad and Ibn Abi al-Dunya."

  34. "throat, is reported in a mursal form by Ibn Abi Dunya from Shabi. Al-Bukhari narrates from Abu Huraira"

  35. "for the slanderer, and the sin of the hereafter is like the sin in this world. In general, forgiveness"

From the Pen of

Ibn Battuta

1 passages
  1. "what you desire in this world and the hereafter, for I have reached my desire in this world,"

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