Khaalid ibn ‘Umayr al-‘Adawee reports, ‘Utbah ibn Ghazwaan رضي الله عنه once delivered a sermon. He praised Allaah, then said: "The life of this world has announced its departure and is quickly turning away, and nothing remains of it save the likes of the last drop of water in a vessel as its possessor tries to catch it. You are moving on to an abode that has no end, so move on with the best [deeds] that you have, for it has been said to us that a rock can be dropped from the edge of the Fire and fall for seventy years without reaching the bottom. Yet, by Allaah, it will be filled. Do you not then wonder? And it has been said to us that a single entrance to Paradise is as wide as a journey of forty years, yet there will come a day when it will be crowded. I have seen myself as the seventh of seven followers of Allaah’s Messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم; we had no food save the leaves of trees which put sores round our mouths. I once got a cloak which I tore in half to share with Sa’d ibn Maalik: I used half as my waist-wrap and he used the other. And yet today, there is not one of us except he has become a governor over some city — and I seek refuge with Allaah that I consider myself great and important when I am small in front of Allaah. Verily, there was never Prophet-hood except that it gradually changed until it ended up being a kingship, and verily you will see what the governors after us are like.” Saheeh Muslim [no.7624]
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