Words That Enlighten: Ease & Hardship Are The Feathers

17 June, 2011

Ease & Hardship Are The Feathers

“Ease & hardship are the feathers that give strength to the wings of your faith , so that your heart and your innermost being can use them to fly to the door of your Lord (Almighty and Glorious is He)”

~Shaykh ‘Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani

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To envy is to desire the removal of Allah’s Blessings from their owner. This is the first level of envy. The second level is to hope misfortune follows the servant (as a shadow would follow its object). On this level the envious one wishes that the object of their envy remains ignorant, poor, weak, and hopes that their heart is separated from Allah. They wish the religion of the one they envy remains deficient. In truth, this envious person hates what Allah Decrees and Grants to His servants.

—Ibn al-Qayyim [d. 751H/1350CE]