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Quotes About Neediness (Asking People for Things and Relying Upon Them)

“We all want love. From God, and from the creation. We are all running towards something. Ironically, the more we run after the creation, the more the creation runs away from us! As soon as we stop running after the creation, and reorient, as soon as we start running towards God, the creation runs after us. It’s a simple, simple formula:

Run towards the creation, you lose God and the creation. Run towards God, you gain God *and* the creation.

Allah is “Al Wadood” (The Source of Love). Therefore, love comes from God—not people. “To acquire love…fill yourself up with it until you become a magnet.”

When you fill yourself with the Source of love (Al Wadood), you become a magnet for love. Allah teaches us this in the beautiful hadith Qudsi: “If Allah has loved a servant [of His], He calls Gabriel and says: “I love so-and-so, therefore love him.’” He (the Prophet pbuh) said: “So Gabriel then loves him. Then he (Gabriel) calls out in Heaven, saying: ‘Allah loves so-and-so, therefore love him.’ And the inhabitants of Heaven love him. Then acceptance is established for him on earth.” [Bukhari, Malik, & Tirmidhi]

We’re all running. But so few of us are running in the right direction. We have the same goal. But to get there, we need to stop. And examine if we are running towards the Source–or just a reflection

Yasmin Mogahed

“Whosoever asks of the creation is blind to the doors of the creator.

Imam Abdul-Qadir Gilani

“Whenever you are needy toward people, even for a glass of water to drink, their regard for you will decrease by the degree of your neediness toward them.

Ibn Taymiyyah

“It may be that you seek help from a person during a hardship yet he does not respond to you or save you. But Allaah–when you need Him and call upon Him–He will answer you.

Muhammad ibn Salih al-`Uthaymeen

“The more needy you are with the Creator, the more you are given. The more needy you are with the creation, the less you are given. SubhanAllah.

Yasmin Mogahed

“With the creation, only when you stop needing, do you get.

Yasmin Mogahed

“When I need God most, He comes to me the fastest and closest. When I need the creation most, they run from me the fastest and farthest.

Yasmin Mogahed

“When you beg of people, they hate you for it. When you beg of Allah, He loves you.

Yasmin Mogahed

“The more you ask others, the more despised you become; the more you ask Allah, the more beloved you become.

Yasir Qadhi
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