Ibrahim ibn Bashar reported: Ibrahim ibn Adham, may Allah have mercy on him, said, “If the kings and their sons knew what we experience of pleasure and happiness in Islam, they would fight us for it with their swords.”
Source: al-Zuhd al-Kabīr lil-Bayhaqī 80
عن إِبْرَاهِيم بْن بَشَّارٍ قال إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ أَدْهَمَ رحمه الله لَوْ عَلِمَ الْمُلُوكُ وَأَبْنَاءُ الْمُلُوكِ مَا نَحْنُ فِيهِ مِنَ النَّعِيمِ وَالسُّرُورِ لَجَالَدُونَا بِالسُّيُوفِ
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