Abu Darda: Three that make me laugh and the three that make me cry…
It is reported form Abu Al-Darda – Allah be pleased with him – that he said, “Three make me laugh, and three make me cry.
Those that make me laugh are
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a person who puts his hopes in this worldly life while death pursues him,
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a person who is heedless [of his Lord] while [his Lord] is not heedless of him, and
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a person who always laughs while he does not know whether he has pleased Allâh or angered Him.
What makes me cry is
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being separated from my beloved: Muhammad and his party (the Companions),
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the horrors of the time of death, and
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standing in front of Allâh ‘azza wa jall on the Day when the secrets will be revealed and I do not know will I then go to Paradise or Hell?”
Ibn Al-Mubârak, Al-Zuhd wa Al-Raqâ`iq article 250.
Mash’Allah for the nice post, especially the 3rd line in the Laughs makes me think twice what I do