Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Do not...

  be happy with richness and do
not despair of poverty. 
Do not feel sad during affliction and 
do not rejoice over prosperity,
for just as gold is tried by fire,
the pious are tried by affliction. 
You will not attain what you want except 
by giving up what you desire, 
and you will not attain what you aspire
to except by enduring patiently what you hate,
and exerting yourself in implementing that 
which has been made 
compulsory upon you by Allah.

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