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No Relaxation in this World

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There can be no relaxation at all in this world for a believer endowed with reason. Whenever he finds such relaxation, this is always accompanied by heedlessness of his Lord and of his appointed time [of death]. A fool, however, may find relaxation in the world, for as a fool, he is unaware of problems or of disturbing things, whether actual or expected. Saying that no repose exists in the world and that man seeks in the world that which was never part of it, this refers to total untroubled repose for people with perspicacity and intelligence. This is evident. As for the fool and the mindless, they may find relaxation. This is why it was said, "The mindless are relaxed." It was something akin to this that al-Muntanabbi alluded to when he said:

Untroubled is the life of one who is ignorant or
heedless of what has elapsed and what remains;
and of one who deludes his soul of reality
and leads it to seek the impossible that it craves.

He also said:

By his intelligence does a man see hardship in bliss,
while the ignorant sees nothing in wretchedness but bliss.

And God knows best.

-Imam 'Abdallah ibn 'Alawi al-Haddad, Knowledge and Wisdom (Fusus al-'ilmiyah wa-al-usul al-hikamiyah)