In his final hours, al-Mansour; the Abbasid caliph said: "We have sold our life to come with a single slumber."
In his last agonies of death, Harun ar-Rashid 256was repeating (God's saying about the disbelievers): "Our wealth has been of no benefit to us and our belief has destroyed us. (69:29)" In his final hours, Abdul-Malik ibn Marwan, the Umayyad caliph, was asked about his feelings. He answered: "I am as exactly as the saying of God:
Allah will say, "You have come to Us alone just as We created you at first. You have left behind all those which We gave to you." (6:94)'
On the sea, Zaitoun, the wise man, saw a man excessively depressed due to the loss of worldly pleasures. He said to him, "Man, what for is this depression? Suppose you are greatly rich, and you are about to drown because the ship you have been on smashed up, will your one and only hope be salvation even if you lose all that which you have in possession?" "Yes, of course," answered the man. "Supposing you are a king," went on the wise man, "but you are surrounded by some people whose main intention is to kill you, will your one and only hope be to escape from them even if you lose all that which is under your control?" "Yes, of course," said the man. "Now," said the wise man, "you are that rich man and you, too, are that king." These words made that man feel happy.
An expert asked a rich man about the way he had been seeking the worldly pleasures. "It has been very tense," asked the rich man. The expert asked, "Have you attained that which you want?" "No," answered the rich man. The expert said, "You have spent all your days for attaining the worldly pleasures, but you have not attained anything. How will you attain the world that you have not worked for?"
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