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THE IMPORTANCE OF SUBMISSION TO ALLAH

432 “There were approximately forty Companions with the Prophet, praise and peace be upon him, inside a tent, when he asked them: ‘Would it please you if you were to become a quarter of the dwellers of Paradise?’ They answered: ‘Yes!’ Then he asked: ‘Would you be pleased if you were to become a third of the dwellers of Paradise?’ They answered: ‘Yes!’ Then he said: ‘By Him in whose Hands is the life of Muhammad, I hope that you will become half of the dwellers of Paradise. None will enter Paradise except a soul that is in complete submission to Allah; and your proportion among the unbeliever is like that of a white hair on the hide of a black ox, or that of black hair on the hide of a red ox.’"

Bukhari and Muslim with a chain up to ibn Mas'ud who related this hadith