THIS LIFE IS LIKE YOUR SHADOW

THIS LIFE IS LIKE YOUR SHADOW

This life is like your shadow; if you turn your back to it and walk away from it, it will continue following you, but if you try to chase it and catch it, it will always run away from you. For this Allāh, Exalted is He, Commanded this worldly life to serve those who serve Him, and to enslave those who serve it. 

The pious does not pay attention to his shadow, therefore the shadow always follows him, while the one seeking it diligently all the time keeps looking around for it, and is thus unable to see it.

Book: Seeds of Admonishment And Reform 

By al-Hāfiz Abū'l-Faraj ibn al-Jawzī

Translated  by Aymān ibn Khālid 

Dār as-Sunnah Publishers

P. 146

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