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RIYADH AS-SALIHIN 101 to lead the Prayer. Another version is: Ayesha said: When Abu Bakr stands in your place people will not be able to hear him for his sobbing (Bokhari and. Muslim). 457. Ibrahim ibn Abdur Rahman ibn Auf relates that food was brought to Abdur Rahman ibn Auf when he had been fasting and he said: Mus‘ab ibn. Umair was killed, and he was a better man than I, and there was nothing that could serve as a shroud for him except a sheet so small that if his head was covered his feet remained uncovered and if his feet were covered his head remained uncovered. Then we have been endowed generously with the bounties of this world, so that I am afraid lest the reward of our good works might have been hastened for us. On this he began to sob and left off eating (Bokhari). 458. Abu Umamah Sudayy ibn Ajalan Bahili relates that the Holy. Prophet said: There is nothing dearer to Allah than two drops and two marks. . The drops are: a tear shed out of fear of Allah, and a drop of blood shed in the cause of Allah. The marks are: a mark received in the cause of Allah, and a mark acquired in discharging an obligation imposed by Allah (Tirmidhi). 459. This is only a reference to hadith No. 158. 55. . On the Excellence of Indifference to the World and of Poverty. Allah, the Exalted, has said: 170. The life of this world is like water that We send down from the clouds, then the vegetation of the earth, of which men and cattle eat, mingles with it and the earth is embellished and looks beautiful, and its owners believe that they are its complete masters; then by day or by night, Our. Command comes to it and We convert it into a mown-down field, as if nothing had existed there the day before. Thus. We expound the Signs for a people who reflect (10. 25). 171. Expound to them the case of the life of this world. It is like water that We send down from the sky, and the vegetation of the earth grows and mingles with it and all becomes stubble which is scattered about by the winds. . Allah has full power over everything. Wealth and children are an ornament of the life of this world; then of these that which is converted into a source of permanent beneficence is best in the sight of thy Lord, both in respect of immediate reward and in respect of expected benefits (18. 46-47). 172. Keep in mind that the life of this world is only sport and pastime, and a display, and a subject of boasting