by Asma bint Shameem
🍃 Ibn al-Qayyim said:
❣️How close this sinner is to the MERCY of Allaah, and how close this conceited one is to the WRATH of Allaah!
❣️A sin that leads to humility is MORE BELOVED to Him than an act of obedience which fills a person with conceit.
❣️If you sleep all night then wake up feeling regret (for not having prayed qiyaam al-layl), that may be BETTER for you than if you were to pray all night and wake up in the morning filled with
self-admiration;
for the deeds of the one who admires himself are NOT ACCEPTED.
❣️ Perhaps your laughing whilst admitting to your shortcomings is BETTER than your weeping with piety but being filled with conceit.
❣️The GROANING of the SINNER is MORE BELOVED to Allaah than the tasbeeh of the conceited.”
(Madaarij al-Saalikeen, 1/177, 178)
Subhaan Allaah!
No matter how many times we read this reminder from Ibn al-Qayyim, it’ll never be enough!
“The groaning of the sinners is more beloved to Allaah than the tasbeeh of the conceited!!”
What a reminder for ALL of us!
🔺Ask yourself this:
- Am I being ‘amazed’ by my own good deeds?
- Am I looking down on someone, even if he’s a sinner?
- Am I backbiting someone?
- Or mocking another?
- Do I feel I’m better, smarter, closer to Allaah, more pious than others?
- Do I think I don’t sin?
- Is ‘self-admiration’ a word somewhere in my vocabulary?
If yes to any of the above, then better be careful.
And make Taubah. NOW.
Don’t be counted amongst the conceited.
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