Happiness come and go
The best amongst them
Is the one who serves
So do not be constrained
By welfare served
Cos' you have the capacity
To serve (others).
Be grateful to Allah
For all His bounties
They need your service
Not otherwise.
There are men who passed away
But their services forever in posterity
Alas, there are those who still live
Nothing to be remembered for
None to be recalled.
(Well known verse by Imam Ash-Shafiee. Contain in the paper 'Tauhidic Approach To Built-Environment Education: Rethinking our Relationship with Nature' by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hj. Ismawi Zen, Dean, Kulliyyah of Architecture & Environmental Design IIUM - Working Paper 2 at AL-IMARA The Islamic Concept of the Built Environment, 15-16th July 1996 Hotel ITM Shah Alam, Selangor Darul Ehsan)
