Focus on Your Purpose

 

Haafidh al-Hakami [d. 1377 AH] (1), may Allaah have mercy on him, said: 

“Know that Allaah, the Lofty and High, has not left the creation without a purpose.” (2)

Allaah, the Most High, says in His Book:

“Did you think that We had created you in play (without any purpose), and that you would not be brought back to Us?” (3)

Haafidh al-Hakami, may Allaah have mercy him, commented on this verse by saying:

Relaxation is in Paradise !

      

Ibn Al Juwziee said:

‘Whoever does not read the stories of the Salaf and the path that they tread, he can never tread that path.  It is befitting for a person to know and understand that the nature of an individual (character) is a thief.  If a person leaves his nature with the people of his time, his nature will steal from theirs and he will become similar to them.  But if he reads into the lives of the Salaf his nature will join theirs and he will learn from their character….(Telblees Iblees)’

The following are just a few examples from the past and present day scholars informing of