Fudayl preferred seclusion to all the things of the world. World's renunciation for him, is a gift of God, granted to the chosen few. He says when God becomes friendly with a man, He grants him much distress and when He makes him His enemy, He provides him worldly goods in abundance.

— Al-Fudayl ibn 'Iyad The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

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