The Lord says: "When My slave remembers Me, I remember him and when He forgets Me I forget him." - 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.

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

The scholars of the Merciful possess humility and submissiveness and the scholars of the rulers possess pride and arrogance. Whoever considers his soul to be of any worth has no share of submissiveness.