08/24/2026
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Distancing Yourself from Everything That Brings Worry, Sorrow, and Grief
Shaykh Ibn ʿUthaymīn (may Allāh have mercy on him) said:
حاوِل أن تبتعِد عن كلِّ شيءٍ يجلِب الهمَّ والحزنَ والغمَّ، لتكونَ دائماً مستريحاً منشرِحَ الصدرِ مُقبِلاً على الله عزَّ وجلَّ وعلى عبادتِه وعلى شؤونِك الدنيويةِ والأخرويةِ، وإذا جرَّبتَ هذا استرحتَ، أمَّا إن أتعبتَ نفسَك بما مضى أو بالاهتمامِ بالمستقبلِ على وجهٍ لم يأذَن به الشرعُ فاعلَم أنك ستتعَبُ ويفوتُك خيرٌ كثيرٌ.
Try to distance yourself from everything that brings worry, sorrow, and grief, so that you may always be at ease — with an open heart, turning toward Allāh, the Mighty and Majestic, toward His worship, and toward your affairs of this world and the next. If you put this into practice, you will find rest. But if you wear yourself out over what has already passed, or by fretting over the future in a manner the Sharīʿah did not sanction, then know that you will only exhaust yourself and miss out on a great deal of good.
📖 Sharḥ Bulūgh al-Marām, vol. 9, p. 138
