How Are You This Morning?!

al-Marrūdhī said: “I entered upon Aḥmad one day and said, ‘How are you this morning?’

He replied:

“How am I this morning [other than] one who’s Lord demands the fulfilment of obligations from him, his Prophet demands the fulfilment of his Sunnah from him, the two angels seek from him to correct his actions, his soul demands from him [the fulfilment] of its desires, Iblīs seeks from him to do abominable acts, the angel of death seeks to take his soul, and his family seek from him to spend on them!”

Source: Ibn Mufliḥ in al-Ādāb al-Sharʿiyyah, (2: 354) ed. al-Risālah.

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