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323 – Abu ‘Abd Allah narrated to us, saying that Abu al-Mughira al-Basri remarked: “If a servant were to busy himself for a single breath of his life and, with that one breath, secured the whole world and everything in it, he would still be the loser in the immediate reckoning.”
٣٢٣ - ثنا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، قَالَ: قَالَ أَبُو الْمُغِيرَةِ الْبَصْرِيُّ: لَوْ أَنَّ عَبْدًا أَشْغَلَ نَفْسَهُ نَفَسًا مِنْ أَنْفَاسِهِ فَأَصَابَ بِذَلِكَ النَّفَسِ الدُّنْيَا بِمَا فِيهَا لَكَانَ هُوَ الْمَغْبُونُ فِي حَاضِرِ الْقِيمَةِ "