Lost to the World
Al-Risala (English), April 1991, p. 14
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan is named as the default author of the periodical; a piece that carries another writer’s byline is credited to that writer.
Lost to the World
1991 4 April 14 Lost to the World (121) “I have seen people among the Prophet’s companions to whom the world meant less than the dust under their feet.” Thus spoke Hasan Basri, the great 8th century religious scholar, to his awed contemporaries. He was well qualified to judge, for he had met a large number of them, seventy of whom had fought at Badr, He told them of how they wore simple, homespun camel hair garments, and were so preoccupied with righteous living that they seemed lost to the world. “Were they to see the best among you, they would think: ‘These people have no connection with Islam.’ And if they saw the worst among you, they would say, ‘These people do not believe in the Day of Judgement.’”
