Mu’āwiyah ibn Qurrah رحمه الله:

“Verily, among the people who will be taken into account the most is the healthy person who has free time!”

[Al-Mujālasah Wa-Jawāhir al-'ilm: 1325]

ʿAbdullāh ibn Abī Zakariyyā:

"Whoever speaks excessively will make frequent mistakes, and whoever makes frequent mistakes will have little piety, and whoever has little piety will have a dead heart, and whoever’s heart is dead, Allāh will forbid Paradise for him."

[كتاب الزهد لابن أبي عاصم (54)]

Ibn al-Qayyim رحمه الله:

"Anyone Allāh disgraces will have no one who can honour him" [22:18]

When bowing down was hard to them and they took it lightly and refused to do it, Allāh disgraced them and there was no one to show respect to them. Who can honour someone who has been disgraced by Allāh? Or disgrace the one whom Allāh has honoured?

[Purification of the Heart & Soul | pg 102]

Ibn al-Qayyim رحمه الله narrated that some of the Salaf said:

“If one does something in secret that he is shy from doing in public, this means that he means nothing to himself.”

[‘Madarij as-Salikin’: 2/353]

إذَا أردتَ شيئًا تُحِبُّه ، فَلا تعصِ اللّٰهَ فِي الوصُولِ إليهِ ؛حتَّىٰ لا يكونَ سببًا فِي حِرمانِكَ مِنهُ ، فإنَّ مَا عندَ اللّٰهِ لا يُدرَكُ بِمعَصيتِه

"If you desire something you love, do not disobey Allāh in reaching it, so that it does not become a reason for you to be deprived of it. For what is with Allāh cannot be attained through disobedience."

Shaykh ibn Uthaymeen رحمه الله:

“How many people really wanted to become righteous but remained in the company of those not righteous and then couldn’t do it.

If he were to have kept away from them, that would have been one of the ways to him being guided.”

[Fataawa Noor ‘Ala ad-Darb, vol. 12, pg. 18]

The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ:

‎The (Final) Hour has approached and people have not increased with Dunyā except in greed and they have not increased with Allāh except in distance.

[aj-Jami’ as-Sagheer: 1146]
Grade: Sahih (Albani)

Do you hold that there is there a limit for a girlʼs education (ie: where there is no ḥarām involved)?

"No, there is no limit, they should learn until they reach the highest level in order to get (benefit) and benefit (others)."

[Bin Bāz, Majmūʿ al-Fatāwá 8/35]

Dhū’l-Nūn al-Misrī:

'Once, while on a journey, I met a devout woman, from her saddened state it seemed like she had lost a child.

She asked me, "Where are you from?" I said, "I am stranger here." She exclaimed, "Stranger! Is it possible to feel the woes of strangeness when one is with Allāh, Mighty and Magnificent? He is the recourse and solace of the strangers and the helper of the weak!"

At this I started to cry and she said, "Know that crying relieves the heart and is something to recourse to, the heart has not repressed something more deserving [of display] than sighs and moans."

I said, "Teach me something!" She replied, "Love your Lord and desire to meet Him, for one day He will show Himself to those who love Him and they will attain their hope of seeing Him."

I then left her as I found her and went on my way.'

[Abū Nu'aym, v.9 | pg. 353]

لا خير في زوج لا يأمر زوجته بالستر

There is no good in a husband that does not order his wife to cover

قيل: أين ذهب حياء النساء؟

It was said: "Where did women's modesty go?"

قالوا: ذهب يبحث عن غيرة الرجال!

They said: "It went searching for the men's gheerah!"