‘If you wish to know which sciences and acts are the most
important and beneficial for you, imagine that you are to die the next
day and return to God to stand before Him and be asked to account for
your knowledge, behaviour, and all your affairs and states, subsequently
to be taken either to the Garden or the Fire.
What you see there as most important and useful to you is precisely what you must now give priority and attachment to;
Whereas what you find useless, unimportant, frivolous, or
simply of no great necessity is what you must neither pursue nor occupy
yourself with in this life.
Meditate on this matter and reflect well; it is of tremendous
benefit to those who have discernment and are concerned about their
appointed time, their return to God, their salvation, and their success
in the Hereafter, which is better and more enduring (Quran 87:17).
(Imam al-Haddad’s Knowledge and Wisdom Translated by Mostafa Badawi, published by the Starlatch Press, 2001).
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