How they lived: Utbah Bin Ghazwan (may Allah be pleased with him) - Sermon
From the lives of our pious predecessors:
Khalid Bin ‘Umayr Al-’Adawi reports, ‘Utbah Bin Ghazwan (may Allah be pleased with him) once gave us a sermon. He praised Allah and said: “The life of this world has announced its departure and is quickly turning away, and nothing remains of it save the likes of the last drop of water in a vessel as its possessor tries to catch it. You are moving on to an abode that has no end, so move on with the best (deeds) that you have. For it has been said to us that a rock can be dropped from the edge of Hell and fall for 70 years without reaching the bottom. Yet, by Allah, it will be filled. Do you not then wonder? And it has been said to us that a single entrance to Paradise is as wide as a journey of 40 years, yet there will come a day when it will be crowded.
“I have seen myself as the seventh of seven (followers of) Allah’s Messenger (peace be upon him). We had no food except the leaves of trees which produced sores round our mouths. I once got a cloak which I tore in half to share with Sa’d Bin Malik. I used half as my waist-wrap and he used the other. And yet today, there is not one of us except that he has become a governor over some city – and I seek refuge with Allah that I consider myself great and important when I am small in front of Allah. Verily there was never prophethood except that it gradually changed until it ended up being a kingship, and verily you will see what the governors after us are like.”
– Sahih Muslim, no. 7624
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