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Al-Hasan Al-Basrī رحمه الله stated:

"They use to say: The best character of the believers is pardoning."

— [Az-Zuhd of Imam Ahmad]

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Ibn al-Jawzi (رحمه الله) said:

“Look at your situation in which you’re in; if it is suitable for death and the grave, then continue upon it.

And if it is not suitable for both, then repent to Allah, Exalted is He, and return to what is suitable!”

— [Bustan al- Wa’ithin | 193]

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Do not sit idle, for indeed death is seeking you.

— Al-Ḥasan Al-Baṣrī (rahimahullaah)

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Al Hasan al Basri (rahimahullah) said,

“One day I was walking with a young pious man in the narrow streets of Basra and its markets until we reached a physician sitting on a chair and around him were many men, women, and children who had bottles of water in their hands. Each one of them was seeking a cure for his illness. The young man moved closer to the physician and asked him, ‘O physician! Do you have a medicine that cleans away sins and cures the [spiritual] diseases of the heart? He replied ‘Yes!’ The young man said, ‘Give it to me!” The physician said, “Take ten things from me – take the roots of the tree of poverty with the roots of the tree of humility, and pour in it the milk of repentance, then place it in the mortar of acceptance [of whatever is predestined for one], crush it with the pestle of contentment, then place it in the pot of piety, pour over it the water of shame, then boil it with the fire of love, then place it in the cup of gratitude and cool it down with the fan of hope, then drink it with the spoon of praise. If you do all of this then it will cure you of every illness and trial in this world and in the Hereafter.'”

- [Preparing For The Day Of Judgement By: Imaam Ibn Hajar AI’Asqalani, Translated By: S.M Hasan AlBanna, pg-42]

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“Love of Allah is the power of the heart, the sustenance of the heart, the light of the heart.”

— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya (Rahimahullaah)

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Hasan al-Basri was reported to have said:

“The best season to a believer is the winter, its nights are long for those who wish to pray, and its days are short for those who wish to fast”

- [Ibn Al-Jawzi, Sifah Al-Safwah Vol. 2/P. 433]

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A person’s tongue can give you the taste of his heart.

- Ibn al-Qayyim (rahimahullaah)

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Three things are necessary to make a kindness complete: thinking little of it, doing it promptly, and keeping it out of sight.

- Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (rahimahullah),

Inner Dimensions of Islamic Worship