Duniya Makaranta Book 2 Complete Hausa Novel

**257.** If you think you can change the world, hurry and do it before you get married. Once you are married, you may find that even changing the television channel in your own home becomes difficult!

**258.** When you are young and single, your greatest desire is to get married. Once you marry, you begin praying for children. When the children grow up, you start hoping they will leave home, get married, and begin lives of their own. Later, you become tired of working and long for retirement. Eventually, you find yourself alone again, and loneliness returns.

In the beginning, you were climbing uphill; now you are going downhill. You wish to memorise the Qur’an, but your memory is no longer as strong. You wish you had learned Arabic, but now you find it difficult. You long to perform more night prayers and observe more voluntary fasts, but the best years for doing so have passed.

This is the story of your journey through this world. Prepare for the Hereafter early, before time runs out.

**259.** Whenever you feel pride beginning to enter your heart, look beneath your feet at the earth from which you were created, and tell your heart: **“From there we came, and to there we shall return.”**

**260.** Never neglect two things: a good friend and a good deed. Take advantage of two things before they pass you by: opportunity and time. And never grow tired of seeking two things: good health and peace.

**261.** Three things hasten ageing: anger, envy, and excessive worry. Among their greatest remedies are forgiveness, knowing Allah, and entrusting your affairs to Him.

**262.** Life has four faces: happiness, sorrow, illness, and good health.

**263.** Whether things are expensive or cheap will not prevent a person from receiving the provision that has been written for them. Seek what is lawful. Rushing desperately after provision does not guarantee that you will obtain it.

**264.** Clothing covers your outward appearance, while the fear of Allah clothes your inner self. Strive to beautify both your outward and inward character.

**265.** When you are troubled, remain calm. When someone hurts or angers you, be patient. When you have wealth, be generous.

**266.** What matters is not merely admitting that you made a mistake, but taking action to correct it.

**267.** Avoiding a single enemy can be more valuable than gaining a hundred friends.

**268.** Some people are like sugar in your life. Even when you no longer see them, their sweetness remains with you.

**269.** Think about how devoted the righteous generations before us were to reading the Qur’an, and then look at how devoted we have become to tapping and scrolling on our phones. Everyone has something that occupies their attention.

**270.** When you want to call upon Allah, you do not need phone credit. You do not need to book an appointment. There is no intermediary and no barrier between you and Him. And when you begin asking Allah for something, you do not need to raise your voice, for He knows both what you have spoken and what you have left unspoken.