Stay in the Niche of Repentance... O sinner, remain patient because you will only be purified from the impurity that has debased your heart until after the waters of your eyes wash off the dirt from the garment of your heart; and the hands of remorse wringed it enough so that afterward you wash it over and over again. Take the examples of Adam ('alayhi as-salām) who remained in tears for three-hundred years for the sin he committed,* and Ayyūb ('alayhi as-salām) who suffered for eighteen years,* and Ya'qūb ('alayhi as- salām) who cried eighty years for the loss of his son Yūsuf ('alayhi as-salām). While tests and hardships are meant to stay for a while then disappear, there is a possibility for a punishment to last until a person passes away. That being the case, stay in the niche of repentance (inābah), sit in the posture of a beggar, let apprehension be your food and tears be your drink so that maybe then, the bearer of glad tiding (of your repentance being accepted) arrives so you can rejoice just as Ya'qūb rejoiced much to the point he had his eye sight returned. If you remain in sorrow and die in the prison of your anxiety (huzn), maybe the anxiousness you suffered in this life relieve you from the anxiousness of the Hereafter, and that is indeed a great gain. *Al-Haythamī said in al-Majma', 8/198, it is reported by Tabarani in al-Awsat. *Abū Ya'la, 6/299 and al-Haythamī, 8/208. Book: Captured Thoughts By al-Hāfiz Abū'l-Faraj Ibn al-Jawzī | Translated and Published by Dār as-Sunnah Publishers | P. 472, 473 https://t.me/TareequlIhsaan/3670 https://t.me/TareequlIhsaan/3671