DON'T BE SAD Episode 70 SAYINGS THAT DEAL WITH THE VIRTUES OF BOOKS

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*DON'T BE SAD*

Episode 70

*SAYINGS THAT DEAL WITH THE VIRTUES OF BOOKS*

Abu Ubaydah said:

"Al-Muhallab gave his son the following advice: "O' son, do not linger in the marketplace unless you are visiting the maker of armour or the book vendor."

Al-Hasan al-Lulu'ee said:

"Forty years have passed, and I have not dozed off in the day or in the night... except that a book was resting on my chest."

Ibn al-Jahm said:

"If I feel drowsy when it is time to sleep --- and wasteful is the sleep that exceeds one's needs --- I take up a book from the books of wisdom and I find bliss in coming across a pearl (of wisdom).... I am more alert when I am happily engaged in reading and learning than I am when I hear the braying of the donkey or the shrill noise of something breaking."

He also said:

"If I find a book to be agreeable and enjoyable, and if I deem it to be beneficial, you will see me hour after hour checking how many pages are left, from fear of being close to the end. And if it is many volumes with a great number of pages, my life and my happiness are complete."

And the best, highest, and worthiest of books is:

Surah Al-Araf, Verse 2:

كِتَابٌ أُنزِلَ إِلَيْكَ فَلَا يَكُن فِي صَدْرِكَ حَرَجٌ مِّنْهُ لِتُنذِرَ بِهِ وَذِكْرَىٰ لِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ

(This is the) Book (the Quran) sent down unto you (O Muhammad SAW), so let not your breast be narrow therefrom, that you warn thereby, and a reminder unto the believers.