Dear Muslim, if you want to live under the shelter of your Lord in this world and hope to reside beside Him in the Hereafter, you have to move to Allah as quickly as possible. You have to do so not slowly, as if walking, but as swiftly as birds and fly in the heavens of faith. The stronger your wings are, the more wishes you will fulfill. But, do you know where you can find your
wings?
Ibn Al-Qayyim said,
“The heart, on its journey to Allah, is like a bird : love is its head, and fear and hope are its wings. When the head and wings are sound, the bird flies gracefully. If the head is cut, the bird dies. If the bird loses one of its wings, it then becomes a target for every hunter or predator.” [Madaarij As-Saalikeen by Ibn Al-Qayyim]
You cannot fly without wings! You cannot move to your Lord without a heart in which the valleys of fear and hope flow!
These are important signs in the way to Allah which Ibn Al-Qayyim directs us. They signify that a heart which moves towards Allah the Almighty must have a
strategy including two matters :
fear and hope.
fear and hope.
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