Reference: https://x.com/rtwett_tm/status/1918930143231213673 قَالَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ كَعْبٍ الْقُرَظِيِّ رحمه الله: إِذَا أَرَادَ اللهُ تَعَالَى بِعَبْدٍ خَيْرًا جَعَلَ فِيهِ ثَلَاثَ خِلَالٍ : فِقْهٌ فِي الدِّينِ ، وَزَهَادَةٌ فِي الدُّنْيَا ، وَبَصَرٌ بِعُيُوبِهِ 📙【 حلية الأولياء (٢١٣/٣) 】 — أخبار السلف الصالح (@rtwett_tm) May 4, 2025 Hilyatul-Awliyaa v3 p213 Muhammad ibn Kaʿb al-Qurazhee رحمه الله said: When Allaah […]
Reference: Madaarij as-Saalikeen v2 p9 Abu Sulaymaan ad-Daaraanee رحمه الله said about asceticism (zuhd): ‘It is to leave that which preoccupies you [away] from Allaah.’ Translation originally published on 14 May, 2020.
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.
[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.
The diet of al-’Alaa ibn Ziyaad every day was [just] a loaf of bread.
As for his asceticism (zuhd), then it is sufficient to know that all his books which have been printed with his permission are for noble charitable causes.
