📿 al-Ḥikam of Ibn ʿAṭāʾ Allāh — Wisdom #51 مَا مِنْ عَمَلٍ أَرْجَى لِلْقَبُولِ مِنْ عَمَلٍ يَغِيبُ عَنْكَ شُهُودُهُ، وَيُحْتَقَرُ عِنْدَكَ وُجُودُهُ "No action is more likely to be accepted than that which you become absent from and whose presence you deem insignificant." The surest sign that an act of worship has been accepted is that you forget it — you neither dwell on it nor magnify it in your own eyes. When the servant sees his action as great, ʿujb (self-conceit) creeps in and the deed is undone, for "Allah only accepts from the god-fearing" (5:27). Abū Sulaymān al-Dārānī said: "Every time I find an action of mine pleasing, I search it out for faults." Let the heart rest with the Lord, not with the deed. — Sharḥ al-Ḥikam, commentary by Ibn ʿAbbād al-Rundī #Islam #Hikam #IbnAtaAllah #Tasawwuf #Spirituality