Preventing from the Remembrance of Allah

"And who are more unjust than those who forbid that Allah's Name be glorified and mentioned much in Allah's mosques..."

(Source: Part of Verse 2:114 quoted (in the wrong context I believe) in Arabic by a man in the Masjid today, annoyed and disturbed from his prayer by another who was praying loudly just a few metres away)

He was a nice guy. Just a bit annoyed and disturbed. He told me my phone was falling out of my pocket and indeed it was.

And I think to myself...

... what a wonderful world.

"So, when they forgot (the warning) with which they had been reminded, We opened for them the gates of every (pleasant) thing, until in the midst of their enjoyment in that which they were given, all of a sudden, We took them (in punishment), and lo! They were plunged into destruction with deep regrets and sorrows."

(Source: Meaning of the Noble Qur'an by Mohsin Khan, 6:44)

All praise and thanks are Allah's.

The Leader of a People is Their Servant

"Two friends, Abdullah and Abu Ali Rabati once started on a journey. Abdullah said to Rabati, 'You are my leader'. Rabati said to Abdullah, 'You are my leader'. [Eventually,] Abdullah was made leader of the two. Thereafter he carried his own luggage and the luggage of Rabati upon his back. One night there fell profuse rain. Abdullah held a blanket over his companion for the whole night. Whenever Rabati said 'Don't do it', Abdullah said 'Have you not selected me as your leader? So don't order me and don't do other than what I order you to do'. Rabati then said, 'I wished then that I were dead and that I did not say to him:You are my leader'."

(Source: Ihya Ulum-id-Din, Rules and Regulations of Journey)

Awesome awesome example.