Imam Abū Hāmid al-Ghazālī Translated by Shaykh Nuh Keller He does not seek this world by his religious learning, for at [the] very least a scholar is someone aware of this world’s wretchedness, triviality, sordidness, and ephemerality; and the next world’s magnificence, permanence, blessings, and vastness – and that the two are opposites. His deeds do not belie his words, and he does not tell anyone to do something without himself being the first to do it. He is devoted to knowledge beneficial in the next world, that which increases desire for acts of worship, and he shuns branches of…
Can the Dead Hear? Commentary of a Hadith from Sahih Muslim