The people of goodness used to advise each other with three

The people of goodness used to advise each other with three

Abu Awn (rahimahullah) said: When the people of goodness used to meet, they would advise one another with three (things) and when they were absent (from each other), some of them used to write to others, (saying): 

(1) Whoever acts for the sake of the afterlife, Allaah will suffice him with his worldly affairs; 

(2) Whoever rectifies what is between him and Allaah (i.e. obedience to Allaah and fear of Him etc), Allaah will suffice him with the people; 

(3) And whoever rectifies his secret affairs, Allaah will rectify his outward affairs.

[Al-Musannaf 7/165]

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An action done without Ikhlaas and without following the Messenger is 

like a traveler whose sock becomes filled with sand, which weighs him down, 

and has no benefit.  

Ibn al-Qayyim - al-Fawaid 89