{"id":47,"date":"2008-11-26T03:40:28","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T07:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/wasim\/?p=47"},"modified":"2008-11-26T23:46:06","modified_gmt":"2008-11-27T03:46:06","slug":"10-useless-matters-ibn-al-qayyim-al-jawziyya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/wasim\/2008\/11\/26\/10-useless-matters-ibn-al-qayyim-al-jawziyya\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Useless Matters: Ibn al Qayyim al Jawziyya"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"storyBody\" class=\"storyText\">\n<p>I used this list during my khatira during the 27th night of Ramadan taraweeh service at Georgetown, and thought it would be beneficial to promote here:<\/p>\n<p>There are ten useless matters:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Knowledge that is not acted on<\/li>\n<li>The deed that has neither sincerity nor is based on following the  \trighteous examples of others<\/li>\n<li>Money that is hoarded, as the owner neither enjoys it during this life  \tnor obtains any reward for it in the Hereafter<\/li>\n<li>The heart that is empty of love and longing for God, and of seeking  \tcloseness to Him<\/li>\n<li>A body that does not obey and serve God<\/li>\n<li>Loving Allah without following His orders or seeking His pleasure<\/li>\n<li>Time that is not spent in expiating sins or seizing opportunities to do  \tgood<\/li>\n<li>A mind that thinks about useless matters<\/li>\n<li>Serving those who do not bring you close to God, nor benefit you in  \tyour life<\/li>\n<li>Hoping and fearing whoever is under the authority of God in His  \thand; while he cannot bring any benefit or harm to himself, nor death, nor  \tlife; nor can he resurrect himself.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"storyBody\" class=\"storyText\">However the greater of these matters are wasting the heart and wasting time.<\/div>\n<div class=\"storyText\"><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"storyText\"><em>&#8211; Ibn al Qayyim al Jawziyya<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used this list during my khatira during the 27th night of Ramadan taraweeh service at Georgetown, and thought it would be beneficial to promote here: There are ten useless matters: Knowledge that is not acted on The deed that has neither sincerity nor is based on following the righteous examples of others Money that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":304,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/wasim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/wasim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/wasim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/wasim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/304"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/wasim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/wasim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/wasim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/wasim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/wasim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}