Part 20

e If the hear is fed by love, greed for pleasure would disappear.

e If your love is true, you would feel an aversion for anything that does not remind you of the one you love. How odd! Whoever claims to love and needs someone to remind him of the lover, his love is not complete. The least thing that shows your love is that you never forget your lover.

e If a lover traveled to meet his lover, his solders will ride with him. Love will be the vanguard, hope — will accompany them, longing will drive them, and fear will gather them on the road to the lover. When he will be about to reach the place of his lover, they will go together. So when he comes to the lover, gifts and rewards will be given to him from every direction in order to be examined whether he will dwell in tranquility and this will be his destiny or he will search for whoever bestowed them upon him.

e Their hearts were filled with good deeds and pure feelings for Allah, and when the time of early dawn came, these deeds were performed and by dawn they reached Allah.

e They walked seriously through this worldly life facing all kinds of pleasures and lusts. A little time passed and they returned from their travel and reached the Hereafter where they found reward and relief and they entered this world of the Hereafter and they were rewarded forever.

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People emptied their hearts from whatever distracted them, and replaced such things with love and appointed eyes to guard and care for them.

Love is never found except in an empty and honest place.

Know the value of what was lost and cry like someone, who knows the value of what has passed him by.

If the human knew the pleasure of meeting Allah and being near Him, he would feel grief for being distant from Him.

If you taste the pleasure of the Hereafter, your drunken heart would sober up.

Whoever feels that the path of performing good deeds is long; his walk along that path will weaken.

Whoever is true to his intention, will be granted resolution.

The human being is always discontent; if August comes, he will long for March.

All hard work is easy for those who believe in Allah, when they know that Allah hears them.

Whoever tastes the pleasures of the Hereafter, it would be easy for him to leave this worldly life.

If one remembers the sweetness of meeting Allah, the difficulty of fighting in His cause will be made easy for him.

You will know where your house is in the Hereafter, so prepare yourself for it and you will be happy there.

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e The best intention is that of he who is preparing to meet his Lord.

¢ Prepare yourself with good deeds before going to the Hereafter and then you will obtain your reward there. Allah says,

which means, "And send (good deeds, or ask Allah to bestow upon you pious offspring) before you for your ownselves." (Al-Baqarah, 2:223)

e Paradise will be content if you performed obligatory acts of worship, Hellfire will be kept away from you if you avoid sins, and love cannot be satisfied with less than the sacrifice of your soul.

¢ The time in which you are obedient to Allah and you are longing for Him is the sweetest time.

e When people handed their souls over to the owner of Islamic faw (Allah), He teaches them how to reach agreement in disputes so they learned to agree and obey.

e Man taught his dog how to catch prey for him and the dog overcame his desire to eat the prey out of respect for his owner and fear of his power, and Allah taught you and you do not accept His teaching.

¢ Eating the game that is caught by an untrained dog is unlawful and likewise are the deeds of the ignorant who performed their deeds for their own sake and not for Allah,

¢ Man consists of the mind of an angel, the lust of an animal, and the fancy of Satan. One of them will prevail. If you could overcome your fancy and lust, you will be in a rank that is higher than an angel. And if your fancy and lust beat you, you will be in a rank that is less than a dog.

¢ It is lawful when a dog catches prey for its owner as Allah accepts deeds that are for His sake alone, while He refuses deeds that are done for others than Him, like when a dog catches prey for itself and not for its owner.

¢ The origin of all good and evil that is found in the servant and all that is praised or dispraised, are from Allah, the Donator and the Preventer. He, the Exalted manages His servants according to these two attributes. The true and sincere worshiper will praise Allah when He gives to him and will turn to Allah when He prevents him from something. Allah, the Exalted gives to him in order to be praised and prevents him in order to be asked. The sincere servant will always praise Allah and ask of Him.

And the Disbeliever is Ever a Helper (of the Satan) against his Lord

Allah, the Almighty says,

which means, "And the disbeliever is ever a helper (of the Satan) against his Lord." (Al-Furqan, 25:55)

This is among the most honorable meanings of the Qur'an. And similarly the believer is always with Allah and He is His helper against himself, his fancy, and his Satan. This is what is meant by the saying that someone is from the party of Allah and is

from among His soldiers. He is a helper of Allah against his enemy. He fights them, hates, and makes them angry for the sake of Allah, the Exalted. He will also be accompanied by some of the characteristics of the angels in his war against His enemies, while others among those who neglect this war have none of these characteristics. The disbeliever is a helper of Satan, his soul, and his fancy against his Lord.

Ibn Abu Hatim mentioned that 'Ata' bin Dinar reported that Sa'td bin Jubair said, "He is helping Satan against Allah through enmity and polytheism." Laith said that Mujahid said, "He is helping Satan against Allah by committing sins." Zaid bin Aslam said, "A helper is a supporter. He supports his enemy in his sin and by polytheism, so he is with his enemy, helping him against Allah." Allah says,

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which means, "And they (disbelievers, polytheists, etc.) worship besides Allah, that which can neither profit them nor harm them." (Al-Furqan, 25:55)

This form of worship is helping, loving, and pleasing the enemies of Allah, but those who are the helpers of Allah are with Him against themselves, Satan, and fancies.

About those who, when they are reminded of the Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) of their Lord:

which means, "And those who, when they are reminded of the Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations,

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etc.) of their Lord, fall not deaf and blind thereat." (Al-Furqan,

The Origin of Sin

There are three main origins of all sins, whether big and small: the heart is attached to someone or something other than Allah, obeying anger, power, and lust, which are polytheism, injustice, and adultery. To be attached to other than Allah and claim another god with Him is polytheism, the core of obeying one’s anger is to kill, and the core of obeying one’s lust r is to commit adultery. That is why Allah, the Exalted combined these three things when He says,

whch means, "And those who invoke not any other i/4h (god) almg with Allah, nor kill such life as Allah has forbidden, except fora just cause, nor commit illegal sexual intercourse." (Al-

Am these three are a cause and effect in each other: poytheism induces injustice and adultery, like sincerity and mmotheism remove them. Allah says,

whch means, “Thus it was, that We might turn away from him evi and illegal sexual intercourse. Surely, he was one of Our chosen, guided slaves." (YUsuf, 12:24)

Also injustice induces polytheism and adultery as polytheism is the biggest injustice of all just as the highest justice is monotheism. Justice is connected to monotheism and injustice is Connected to polytheism. That is why Allah combined them:

6 baal OG LIT iil Kil ge Sa SSE aks which means, "Allah bears witness that La i/aha illa Huwa (none has the right to be worshipped but He), and the angels, and those having knowledge (also give this witness); (He is always) maintaining His creation in Justice."(Al-'Imran, 3:18)

which means, "Verily! Joining others in worship with Allah is a great Zhulm (wrong) indeed. (Luqman, 31:13)

And adultery induces polytheism and injustice, especially when it is strong and it occurs through injustice and by using the