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A Sinner...that’s better than the Pious?

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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