Status Updates From الوابل الصيب من الكلم الطيب

I sometimes forget I can use GoodReads. Anyways, I’m reading this book on the masjid’s bookshelf, and it’s highly beneficial, Alhamdu li Allaah. The way that it is structured makes it easy to take notes and review, and parts of the book are formatted in a numbered order, which helps when memorizing. May Allaah (ﷻ) have mercy on our beloved Shaykh Ibn Ul-Qayyim.

❝He who practises it (remembrance of God) is rich without possessions, honoured without followers and revered without rank. One who neglects it is, by contrast, poor with all his wealth, abased with all his rank and power, worthless with all his followers.❞

‘‘Abu Muslim used to engage in such abundant remembrance of God that a man once saw him and asked [another], ‘Is your friend [here] mad?’ Hearing this, Abu Muslim replied, ‘This is not madness, my nephew. This is the cure for madness.’’’