Whom God loves, on him He sends sufferings and whom He does not like, on him He bestows comforts. - 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.

For thirty years I have never smiled.

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.