Supporting one’s parents, cherishing spouse and children and a peaceful occupation; this is the greatest blessing.
When a man honours his father and mother, God says, “I regard it as though I had dwelt among them and they had honoured me."
Surely my prayer and my sacrifice and my life and my death are (all) for Allah, the Lord of the worlds.
It is inevitable that a tragedy should arouse sorrowful feelings. Still, out of that sorrow itself comes a feeling of triumph – the victory of the human will over the most adverse circumstances. And thus out of sorrow and defeat come joy and victory.
One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
