O Peaceful Nafs turn to God being satisfied and giving satisfaction. Be careful before meeting death. When the heart is perfected all your conditions become perfect. Good men abstain themselves from the world and conquer it by fear of God and piety. My satisfaction with Taqdir (fate) has led me to God. Make piety your weapon and make Tawhid (Unification of God) contemplation. Piety and sincerity in seclusion and beseeching Gods help your army. When you get the ability assign this world to your Nafs, the Nafs, the next world to your heart and the Lord to your soul. Be constant in fear of God and his worship. Do not fear anyone else nor expect anything from any one. Save yourself - Fear God, fear God and fear God. Three things are indispensable for a believer in all conditions of life. He should keep those commandments of God: he should abstain from the forbidden things; and he should be pleased with the decree of Providence. Then He will give you death in your will and desires, and when you are dead in your will and desires it will be said to you: May God have mercy on you and He will restore you to (a new) life. When you are in a particular condition do not wish for another condition either higher or lower. Thus, when you arc at the palace gate of the King do not wish for an entrance into the palace unless you are made to enter it by compulsion and not of your own accord. Wealth is your servant and you are the servant of the Lord. Then know that God is every day in a new state of glory, in chancing and altering and raising and lowering (people). Trials and calamities strengthen the heart and certainty and establish the faith and patience and weaken the animal-self and its desires. Be aware of sin in all its form in all your organs of body and in your heart. Do not run away from God for He will overtake you. Do you not know that for every occurrence of event there is an appointed time and for every calamity there is a point of consummation? Make your life after death your capital money and your wordily life its profit. Spend your time first of all in acquiring your life after death. There is no spiritual stale nor any spiritual station but has fear and hope attached to it. These two are like two wings of a bird but for which no flight can be perfect. And this is true of every state and station. With this much of difference that every state has its corresponding fear and hope. The worldly life is a cultivation ground of the life hereafter; and the good deeds of the Prophets and Awliya after the performance of commandments and prohibitions consist in patience and pleasure and reconcilement in the midst of trial. In everything there is an attribute from the attributes of God and every name is a sign one of his names. So surely you are between His names and His attributes and works, inwardly through His power and outwardly through His wisdom. He is manifest in His attributes and concealed in His person. His person is concealed in His attributes and His attributes are concealed in His works And He has revealed His knowledge through His will and He has expressed His will in movements. And He has concealed His skill and His workmanship through His wilt. So He is hidden in His invisibility and He is manifest in His wisdom and power. There is nothing like even a likeness of Him and He is hearing and seeing.
Posted on: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 19:49:37 +0000
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