A Sinner...that’s better than the Pious?

by Asma bint Shameem

🍃 Ibn al-Qayyim said:

❣️How close this sinner is to the MERCY of Allaah, and how close this conceited one is to the WRATH of Allaah!

❣️A sin that leads to humility is MORE BELOVED to Him than an act of obedience which fills a person with conceit.

❣️If you sleep all night then wake up feeling regret (for not having prayed qiyaam al-layl), that may be BETTER for you than if you were to pray all night and wake up in the morning filled with

self-admiration;

for the deeds of the one who admires himself are NOT ACCEPTED.

❣️ Perhaps your laughing whilst admitting to your shortcomings is BETTER than your weeping with piety but being filled with conceit.

❣️The GROANING of the SINNER is MORE BELOVED to Allaah than the tasbeeh of the conceited.”

(Madaarij al-Saalikeen, 1/177, 178)

Subhaan Allaah!

No matter how many times we read this reminder from Ibn al-Qayyim, it’ll never be enough!

“The groaning of the sinners is more beloved to Allaah than the tasbeeh of the conceited!!”

What a reminder for ALL of us!

🔺Ask yourself this:

- Am I being ‘amazed’ by my own good deeds?

- Am I looking down on someone, even if he’s a sinner?

- Am I backbiting someone?

- Or mocking another?

- Do I feel I’m better, smarter, closer to Allaah, more pious than others?

- Do I think I don’t sin?

- Is ‘self-admiration’ a word somewhere in my vocabulary?

If yes to any of the above, then better be careful.

And make Taubah. NOW.

Don’t be counted amongst the conceited.