Certain people blaming you? Speaking ill of you? Not pleased with you? Ponder over this:
A man said to al-Hasan al- Basri (RaHimullah): " The people sit around you so that they may find fault with you!". So al-Basri(RaHimu llah) replied: " Indeed, I encouraged my soul to aspire for Paradise, so it aspired for it. Then I encouraged it to aspire for salvation from Hellfire and so it aspired for it. Then I encouraged it to aspire for salvation from the people, but I didn't find a way to that. Indeed, the people were not pleased with their Creator although He provides for them, so how can they be pleased with another creation like themselves?"/
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