Documents of the Right Word

mere knowledge without any practices will be harmful to him in
the Hereafter and he will not be able to put forward the excuse
that he did not know. Have you not heard our Prophet’s ‘sall-
Allâhu alaihi wa sallam’ hadîth-i-sherîf? He states, “On the Rising
Day the most vehement torment shall be inflicted on the scholar
who has not benefited from his knowledge.” One of our superiors
‘rahmatullâhi aleyh’ saw Juneyd-i-Baghdâdî ‘qaddas-Allâhu
rûhah’ in his dream and asked how he was doing (after death).
Juneyd answered, “All my statements, kashfs, ishârats, that is, all
my zâhirî and bâtinî knowledge came to naught; they were all
gone. I had performed a namâz of two rak’ats one night. That
namâz came to my rescue.”
5- Do not be slack in your practices, worships! Do not forget
states and knowledge pertaining to heart! Your actions should be
agreeable with your knowledge and your spiritual states should be
in concordance with Tasawwuf.
Be it known very well that (religious) knowledge will not save
a person unless it is put into practice. Let me clarify this point with
an example for you: Supposing someone fully armed suddenly met
a lion in the mountains. No matter how brave and how good he
might be in using a gun and a sword, could he save himself from
this lion unless he used his weapons? He could not, as you, too,
know very well. By the same token, however deeply learned a
person may be, his knowledge will come to naught if he does not
act upon his knowledge. Another example is about a doctor who
becomes ill himself. Supposing he diagnosed his illness and knew a
medicine which really would cure his illness, sheer knowledge
would not cure him unless he took the medicine. You know this
very well, too. The poet says:
You may have made thousands of physics;
To no avail, unless you use them.
However much a person may have learned and however many
books he may have read, all this will be an exercise in futility unless
he practices what he knows.
6- Unless you earn mercy of Allâhu ta’âlâ by doing His
commandments and acting in the way He likes, you shall not
attain His compassion. An âyat-i-kerîma purports, “One will
attain happiness only by working and worshipping.” If someone
should say that this âyat-i-kerîma was changed by another âyat,
may the person who makes such an allegation be changed,
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