The diet of al-’Alaa ibn Ziyaad every day was [just] a loaf of bread.
Tag: humility
A year comes and passes
Indeed a year comes [and passes], and I will not have eaten any meat, other than from my udh.hiyah sacrifice on the day of [‘Eed] al-Adh.haa.
The benefits of hunger
Hunger cleanses the mind and kills the desires, and it is a cause for attaining deeper knowledge.
How much do you glorify Allaah every day?
Unless my fingers have made a mistake, it is a hundred thousand times.
In pursuit of humility
He was self-deprecating, and would not deem himself [to be much].
in shaa.-Allaah they have been forgiven by Allaah
If it were not that I was amongst them (this group of righteous men), I would have said [in shaa.-Allaah] they have been forgiven [by Allaah].
Humbling and belittling oneself
Yoosuf ibn al-Husayn was an imaam of his time. There was no-one from the scholars like him in terms of humbling and belittling himself.
My soul has become proud
My soul has become proud, and I wanted to humble it.
O Allaah, if you forgive me
O Allaah, if you forgive me, then you are qualified to do so, and if you punish me, then I am qualified to be so.
Washing the bodies of the dead in preparation for burial
[In preparation for their burial], al-Muzanee would wash the dead as an act of worship, and he would say…