For thirty years I have never smiled. - Al-Fudhayl bin 'Iyyadh

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

God revealed to the mountain, I will speak a prophet upon one of you; so the mountains raised themselves high is pride while Mount Sinai lowered itself humbly. Then God spoke to Moses on this mountain because of its humility.

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.