"Get yourself out of
this limited world of diseases to the wide world of the Hereafter, which has
what the eyes have never seen. Nothing is impossible there, and love is not
lost. O you who sold yourself for the sake of something that will cause you
suffering and pain, and which will also lose its beauty. You sold the most
precious item for the cheapest price, as if you neither knew the value of the
goods nor the meanness of the price. Wait until you come to the Day of mutual
loss and gain (The Day Of Resurrection/Judgment Day)and you will discover the
injustice of this contract. 'There is no deity worthy
of worship (in truth) except Allaah' is something that Allaah is buying. Its price
is paradise, and the messenger is its agent, and you will be pleased to part
with a small part of this worldly life to obtain it. The part you lose is a
small part of something, that as a whole, is not worth a mosquito's wing.(in
the sight of it's Creator, and those who love and long for Him)"
[Taken from the book Al-Fawaa'id (Benefits) by the late Muslim scholar
Ibnul-Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah]