Sayings of Al-Hasan Al-Basri

1-It is reported that Al-Hasan Al-Basri – Allah have mercy on him – said:

“How strange it is that person whose departure (from this world to the next) has been announced, and whose predecessors have already departed, still plays around!”[Abu Bakr Al-Daynuri, Al-Mujalasah wa Jawahir Al-’Ilm article 843.]

2-It is reported that Al-Hasan Al-Basri – Allah have mercy on him – said:

“It has reached me that when Allaah the Mighty and Majestic blesses a people and gives them some good he asks them to be grateful. If they are grateful, He is all able to give them more. But if they are ungrateful, He is all-able to turn His blessings into a punishment.”[Al-Bayhaqi, Shu’ab Al-Iman article 4536.]