Excerpted from the book 'Some Points of Benefit' ‘al-Fawai'd’ by Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah
What is the Strangest Thing?
The strangest thing is that you know Him (Allah), and then you do not love Him.
You hear His invitation to follow His path, and then you delay to accept His invitation.
You know the extent of profit you will get when you deal with Him, and then you deal with other than Him.
You know the extent of His anger, and then you dare to anger Him.
You suffer the anguish of loneliness when you disobey Him, and then you do not seek to enjoy cordiality by obeying Him.
You suffer heartbreaking pain when you utter speech other than His speech and speak about other than Him, and then you do not long for delighting your heart by remembering and praying to Him.
Your heart suffers torture when it is attached to other than Him, and then you do not flee to the delight of repenting to Him.
And the strangest thing is that you know that you extremely need Him, and then you avoid His path, and like what distances you from Him.
Source Al-Fawai'd
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