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should be said that entering Paradise depends only on (having)
îmân; yes, it is true. Nevertheless, not before having weathered a
considerable number of dangers. A person who does not go to
the next world with îmân shall not enter Paradise. Entering
Paradise requires moving to the Hereafter and surviving the
other dangers. And then one will attain only the lowest grades of
Paradise.
7- You have to know very well that you shall not obtain any
thawâb unless you work and follow the way shown by the
religion! Once there was an Israelite who had been worshipping
for many years. Allâhu ta’âlâ wished to show his worships to
angels. He sent him an angel and had the angel ask him: “How
long are you going to go on worshipping like this? Haven’t you
already deserved (entering) Paradise?” The worshipper
answered: “My duty is to act like a born slave. He has the
Commanding Post.” Upon hearing this answer, the angel said:
“Yâ Rabbi! Thou art the Omniscient. Thou hast heard how Thine
born slave hath answered.” A hadîth-i-qudsî purports, “That
born slave of Mine, lowly and humiliated as he is, will not turn
away from Us; so We, being Generous and Compassionate, shall
certainly not forsake him. O Mine angels! Be witnesses: I have
forgiven him!”
8- Behold what our Prophet Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’ states:
“Before you are called to account in the Hereafter, call yourselves
to account in the world; and before you are weighed, weigh
yourselves!” Alî Murtadâ ‘radiy-Allâhu anh’ states: A person who
expects to attain Paradise without endeavouring and taking pains
is building castles in the air. And a person who claims to attain by
working ought to exert himself and shoulder the burden of
worships. Hasan Basrî ‘rahmatullâhi aleyh’, one of hadrat Alî’s
‘radiy-Allâhu anh’ disciples, states: It is a grave sin to ask for
Paradise from Allâhu ta’âlâ without worshipping. One of our
superiors states, “A person whose knowledge is useful is a person
who ceases not from worshipping but from estimating the thawâb
he will earn by worshipping.” Our master the Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu
alaihi wa sallam’ states, “A wise person will crush his nafs and
work for (earning) what he will need in the Hereafter. And an
idiot will run after the desires of his nafs and then pray to Allâhu
ta’âlâ to take him to Paradise.”
9- You have sacrificed many a night and forgone many a
luscious sleep for the sake of learning and reading books. I
cannot see why you should have ruined yourself so badly? If
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