The Cure for Madness!

 

Abu Muslim al khawlaani would frequently perform dhikr, his tongue would always move in the remembrance of Allah and so a man asked one of his companions, ‘Is your friend mad?’ Abu Muslim replied,

‘My brother, no, rather this is the cure for madness!’

al-Hasan said, while describing them, 'When the ignoramus looks at them, he thinks them ill, yet far are they from illness! He would say they have lost their minds, indeed they have lost their minds to a great matter, far loftier than their accusations, by Allaah they are busied with it from your worldly lot!'

The legacy of the Prophet | Ibn Rajab | Pg.59 footnotes.

“Beware of enabling Shaytaan to establish himself …”

Ibn al-Qayyim Al-Jazwiyyah ‘rahimahullah says:

”Beware of enabling Shaytaan to establish himself in the very
home of your thoughts and intentions, as he will corrupt them in
such a manner that will make difficult its correction thereafter.
He will cast all sort of whisperings and harmful thoughts at
you and he will prevent you from thinking about what may
benefit you and it is you who have aided him against yourself
by empowering him over your heart and thoughts and he then
placed you in the possession of such thoughts.”

Al-Fawaa’id of Ibn Al-Qayyim Al-Jazwiyyah, page. 309

Source:AbdurRahman.org

Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah:

"Never  the love of song and the love of Qur'an come together in a person’s heart except that one expels the other."

(Madârij Al-Sâlikîn, Vol.1 p487)do