Hussain ibn Ali narrates that the prophet
one stood up and said: "0 people! It appears as if death has been ordained only for others (ie. some of us behave as if we will not die) and that it is only the duty of others to embrace the truth. It appears as if the deceased people we see off to their graves are merely going on a little journey from which they will soon return, yet we eat up their legacy as if we will live forever after them. We have forgotten every lesson and feel safe from every calamity. Glad tidings for the person whose own faults preoccupy him from searching for the faults of others and glad tidings for the person whose earnings are pure, whose private life is a righteous one, whose public life is good and who is steadfast on the path he treads. Glad tidings also for the person who humbles himself before Allaah even though he does not suffer any deficiencies within himself, who spends from what he earns without sinning, who associates with men of understanding and wisdom and who is compassionate towards downtrodden and poor people. Glad tidings for the one who spends (in Sadaqah) his excess wealth, holds back his excess talk and is comfortable with practising the Sunnah without ever resorting to innovations."
(Hilyat al awliya of imam Abu nuaym, vol 3 page 202)
