How can you laugh ?

Wahb ibn al-Warid noticed people laughing on the day of Eid, upon seeing this he stated:

“If their fast was accepted, then know that this is not the action of those who are grateful, and if it was not accepted, 

then this is not the action of those who are afraid."

[Source: ”Lata’if al-Ma’arif fima li Mawasim al-Aam min al-Wadha’if” of Ibn Rajab, page 210]


قال حمزة الأعمى: وكنت أدخل على الحسن منزله وهو يبكي، وربما جئت إليه وهو يصلي فأسمع بكاءه ونحيبه فقلت له يوماً: إنك تكثر البكاء، فقال: يا بني، ماذا يصنع المؤمن إذا لم يبكِ؟ يا بني إن البكاء داع إلى الرحمة. فإن استطعت أن تكون عمرك باكيا
فافعل، لعله تعالى أن يرحمك

Hamza al’amaa said: I would visit Hassan al-Basari at his house and find him crying.
Sometimes I would come to him while he was in pray and hear him weeping.
So I spoke to him one day saying: ‘You cry too much.’ He replied: ‘O my beloved son, what should the believer do if not cry? My dear child crying invites His mercy, so if you can spend the rest of your life crying, then do so. For perhaps Allah will have mercy upon you because of it.

Ibn Al-Qayyim said :
والرجل هو الذي يخاف موت قلبه لا موت بدنه
“A man is the one who fears the death of his heart, not his body.”
["Madarij Al-Salikeen", 3/248].

Zuhd Of Ibn Uthaymeen (R)

Al-Rabī‘ bin Khuthaym once passed by some children in a classroom crying. He asked them, “What is wrong children?”

They replied, “Today is Thursday, the day we are supposed to present our books to the teacher, so we are afraid he will beat us.”

So al-Rabī‘ started crying, saying, “O nafs, how about the day ‘the Book’ will be presented before the Al-Mighty.

“Once, King Khalid visited Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymīn رحمه الله at his house, as was the habit of the rulers in their high regard and respect for the scholars. And when the King saw the humble home of the Shaykh he offered to have a new house built for him, (at which) the Shaykh thanked him saying:

“I am building a house in

(the district of) As-Sālihiyyah, however, the masjid and the charitable trust are in need of (financial) assistance”.

So, after the King left, some of those sitting in the gathering said:

“O Shaykh, we did not know that you were building a home in as-Sālihiyyah”, (to which) the Shaykh replied:

“Isn’t the graveyard in As-Sālihiyyah”!?”

(Ad-Dur tah-Thamin fi Tarjamti Faqihil-Umah page 218)

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