“They were youths, yet mature youths, their eyes fresh and free of evil, their feet refrained from approaching falsehood and futility.
They sacrificed and expended themselves in worship and in withholding themselves from sleep. They sold their souls which were to pass away for souls which would never die.
They spent the latter part of the nights in prayers and reciting the Qur’aan. Whenever they came to an Aayah mentioning Paradise, they would weep, longing for it. Whenever they came upon an Aayah mentioning the fire they would groan out of fear, as if the Hell-fire were directly in front of them.
The earth devoured their knees their hands and their foreheads (out of their constant prostration). They joined exhaustion in the night with exhaustion in the day. Their colour becoming yellowed and their bodies emaciated through standing long in prayer and frequent fasting – whilst they regarded their own actions to be negligible before Allaah.
They fulfilled their covenant with Allaah and attained Allaah’s promise.”
Let’s hasten to be like them and to resemble them.