Words of Wisdom Archives

Tell time [to pause], so I can then stop [moving my lips].

Unless my fingers have made a mistake, it is a hundred thousand times.

“It is as if you dislike socialising with the people.”

To talk about the people is an illness, and to remember Allaah is the cure.

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.