Ibnul al-Qayyim [رحمه الله تعالى] said,
When a person spends his entire day with no other concern but Allaah سبحانه و تعالى alone, Allaah will take care of all his needs and take care of all that is worrying him. He will empty his heart so that it will be filled only with love for Him, free his tongue so that it will speak only in remembrance of Him [dhikr], and cause all his faculties to work only in obedience to Him.
But when a person spends his entire day with no other concern but this world, Allaah will make him bear its distress, anxiety and pain. He will leave him to sort himself out, and cause his heart to be distracted from the love of Allaah towards the love of some created being. He will cause his tongue to speak only in remembering people instead of remembering Allaah. He will cause him to use his talents and energy in obeying and serving the people. This person will strive hard, laboring like some work-animal, to serve something other than Allaah.
Everyone who turns away from being a true slave of Allaah by obeying and loving Him, will be burdened with servitude to some created being. Allaah says in the Qur’aan:
And whosoever turns away [blinds himself] from the remembrance of the Most Beneficent, We appoint for him a shaitaan to be his Qareen [intimate companion]. (al-Zukhruf:36)
It was narrated that Anas [رضي الله عنه] said that the Prophet [صلى الله عليه و سلم] said:
Whoever is mainly concerned about the Hereafter, Allaah will make him feel independent of others and will make him focused and content, and his worldly affairs will fall into place. But whoever is mainly concerned with this world, Allaah will make him feel in constant need of others and will make him distracted and unfocused, and he will get nothing of this world except what is decreed for him.
(Narrated by at-Tirmidhi, Hadith No. 2389 and classed as Saheeh by Sheikh Muhammad al-Albaani (رحمه الله تعالى)
(Source: al-Fawaa’ id, page 159)
Daniel Niyonshuti is a wonderful person who is struggling to pay for his Nursing degree at the University of Rwanda. Daniel lost his parents in the Rwandan genocide in 1994 and spend his entire childhood on the streets, sleeping under bridges, begging and feeding on scraps he found in the trash. Aid workers helped him start school and since then he has worked very hard on getting his education and pursuing his dream of becoming a doctor through his dedicated work and strong faith in God.
Daniel was accepted into the University of Rwanda’s Nursing program and thanks to generous donations, was able to pay for his registration fees and first semester tuition and start his first semester there. He has never been more excited to be in school and study to be a doctor. However, he is due to pay the second installment of his tuition soon and he is finding himself short of about $280 (200,000 Rwandan francs) to cover the installment and room and board. Please, donate to his fundraising campaign (run under my name because gofundme requires the funds to go to an American account - i send them to him via WesternUnion after) here:
The goal is set at $3,100 in order to help him cover his expenses for all three eyars of his program (estimated to be 600,000 francs tuition + varying sums for room and board and other expenses).
On the fundraising page is Daniel’s recount of his struggle to get to where he is. The page also has a video of him, to further prove the legitimacy of the campaign. Here is a picture of Daniel’s acceptance letter and some pictures of him in university:
Daniel’s schedule (he sometimes doesn’t take very good pictures)
Please donate to the campaign and share it - every dollar helps! Please, keep reblogging this post!
