Words of Wisdom Archives

Indeed [true] fear is to fear Allaah until your fear [of Him] lies between you and your sins; that [there] is what fear is.

He was self-deprecating, and would not deem himself [to be much].

Indeed it is my falling short [of sufficient good deeds] that I weep over.

[With] death approaching me, [I am] far from [what] I [had] hoped [for myself], [and] my [good] deeds are insufficient.

If it were not that I was amongst them (this group of righteous men), I would have said [in shaa.-Allaah] they have been forgiven [by Allaah].

Yoosuf ibn al-Husayn was an imaam of his time. There was no-one from the scholars like him in terms of humbling and belittling himself.

My soul has become proud, and I wanted to humble it.

The best of actions [are those that] oppose personal desire.

O Allaah, if you forgive me, then you are qualified to do so, and if you punish me, then I am qualified to be so.

Which of the two is best: [that] I glorify Allaah ( سبحان الله ), or [that] I seek forgiveness from Allaah ( أستغفر الله )?