In The name of Allah,The Most Merciful,The Most gracious
The noblest branches of knowledge are those that bring you close to the Creator and help you to be pleasing to Him.
Imam Ibn Hazm
Do not attach your heart other than Allah by Ibn Taymiyyah:
Imam ibn Taymiyyah rahimahullah said:
Anyone whose heart is attached to the creation, hoping for someone from the creation to help him or provide for him or guide him, then his heart submits to them and to the degree that his heart submits to them, he becomes their slave. This holds true, even if he is outwardly a ruler or guardian over those whom he treats as masters. The wise one looks at realities and not at appearances. So if a man’s heart is attached to his wife, even though that is permissible, his heart remains a prisoner to her and she may rule over him as she pleases – though outwardly he is her master and her husband. In reality, he is her prisoner and her slave, especially if she knows how much he is in need of her and how much he is in love with her and how much he feels she cannot be replaced by anyone else. At that point, she rules over him as the tyrant master rules over his subjugated slave, who cannot escape of go free. Indeed for the heart to be taken as a prisoner is a much greater matter than for the body to be taken as a slave or prisoner. Even a body that is a slave can have in it a serene and peaceful and happy heart. As for the heart that is a slave to other than Allah (the Exalted), then that is true humiliation, imprisonment and slavery.
“It is a duty of a Muslim who has anything to bequeath not to let two nights pass without including it in his will.” (Bukhari)
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