Al-Murrudi’ asked Imam Ahmed: “How are you today?”
He replied:
‘How can I be while I am required by my Lord to perform obligatory acts of worship, by my Prophet to practice his Sunnah, by the two angels to improve my deeds, and my soul urges me to follow it, Shaytaan pushes me to commit evil deeds, the Angel of death is waiting to take my life, and my children are asking me to provide for them?’” -Siyaar a'laam an Nubalaa 11/227
One of the salaf said:
ReplyDelete"Beware of the life of this world because its magic is more effective than that of Harut and Marut. The two latter's separate a man from his wife whereas the life of this world separates a man from his Rabb."