Satisfaction is better than asceticism in this world because one who is satisfied never wishes for anything beyond his station. - Al-Fudhayl bin 'Iyyadh

Fudayl preferred seclusion to all the things of the world. World's renunciation for him, is a gift of God, granted to the chosen few. He says when God becomes friendly with a man, He grants him much distress and when He makes him His enemy, He provides him worldly goods in abundance.

Only the fearful one sees the fearful. It is the mother without her child who likes to see other mourning mothers.

I wish to fall ill that all my time may pass in seclusion with the Lord and be saved appearing in mass prayers.