A reminder from Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali (tr. Sh. Musa Furber)
The wife of Habib Abu Muhammad a student of al-Hasn al-Basri would say to him at night: The night has departed. We have a distant journey ahead of us and few provisions. The caravans of the Righteous have traveled before us while we remained behind:
O, you who sleep at night: how long do you slumber?
Arise my love, the appointment has approached.
Take part of the night and of its duration
[for] worship so long as the slumberers have not dozed. Whoever slept til his night has ended
has not reached the camp nor endeavored.
Tell those with minds, endowed with god-fearing,
for you the heavy weight of examination is appointed.
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