Al-Hasan Al-Basri once said "I have known people and kept company with groups who neither rejoiced when the things of the world came to them, nor grieved when they lost anything in the world. The life of this world was more insignificant than dust. One of them might live for a year or for sixty years without having a garment that would cover him, and without ever having anything to come between him and the ground, and without having any food that he could ask to be prepared for him in his own home.
When night came, they would be on their feet,with their foreheads flat against the earth, tears rolling down their cheeks, secretly calling to Allah to save them on the day of judgment. If they did some thing good they never stopped being grateful for it,and were always asking Allah to accept it.If they did something bad they would be saddened by it, and would keep on asking Allah to forgive them for it. By Allah they were not safe from wrong actions, and were only saved by their constant turning in repentance. May Allah be pleased with them and grant them His Mercy.
Source: From the book "Purification of the soul" by Ahmed Farid
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