‘Do you all want to enter the Garden?’ They answered, ‘Yes, Messenger of Allah.’ He said, ‘Then manage your expectations, keep your deaths firm in your sights, and be truly modest before Allah.’ They said, ‘Messenger of Allah, all of us are ashamed before Allah.’ He explained, ‘Modesty before Allah is not like that. Modesty before Allah is that you do not forget the graves and the decay, you do not forget the stomach and what it holds and you do not forget the head and what it contains. Whoever desires the honour of the Next World abandons the adornment of this world. The slave is modest
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