When Allaah تعالى wants good for a servant, He grants him three qualities: • understanding of the religion (fiqh), • detachment from worldly life (zuhd), • insight into his own flaws.
Category: Contentment & Zuhd
Leave that which preoccupies you away from Allaah
Abu Sulaymaan ad-Daaraanee رحمه الله said about asceticism (zuhd): 'It is to leave that which preoccupies you [away] from Allaah.'
Everything will come to pass
Asceticism is looking at the world with an eye that [some day] everything will come to pass, and thereby it appears insignificant in your eyes.
Honouring your father
Whoever walks in front of his father, then he has disobeyed him, unless he walked [ahead] to remove [any] harm from his path.
Working for a living
Some of the companions saw a strong young man racing to his job, and they remarked: 'If only in the Path of Allaah...', then the Prophet ﷺ responded to them, saying
Therein is sufficiency
If a person were to [carefully] ponder over the Qur.aan, then therein is [sufficiency in] what will refute every innovator's innovation.
The masjid is a marketplace of the Hereafter
'Ataa ibn Yasaar رحمه الله saw a man trading in the masjid, so he said to him
From the right of the father upon his son
From the right of the father upon his son is that [t]he [son] does not
Just two or three almonds
[Regarding the Imaam], Abu 'Abdillaah al-Bukhaaree, a day would come and quite possibly he would not [even] eat a piece of flat bread, and instead sometimes [just] eat two or three almonds.
A daily diet of bread
The diet of al-'Alaa ibn Ziyaad every day was [just] a loaf of bread.