Documents of the Right Word

13- It is insanity to learn knowledge and then not to use it. And
it is equally wrong and unacceptable to practise (religious
commandments) without knowing (them). A line:
Acquire knowledge, and never be negligent in worships!
These two will save you from burning in fire.
Knowledge that does not protect you from sins and does not
encourage you to worship today, will not protect you from Hell
fire on the morrow.
If you cannot have your past sins forgiven by worshipping, in
the Rising Day, when your hand and tongue become incapable,
you will be one of those who will say, “Yâ Rabbî! Send us back to
the world. We shall spend all our lives worshipping.” And you will
be answered, “O idiot! You have come from there!”
14- You should work earnestly, put up a vehement opposition
against the nafs, which is an enemy of Allâlhu ta’âlâ, and subjugate
it and prepare yourself in a way as if you were going to be lying in
the grave the next moment. Those who have gone to the next
world before you are wondering when and in what state you are
going to join them. Come to your senses and do not go there
without any resources! Abû Bekr as-Siddîq ‘radiy-Allâhu anh’
stated: The human body is either like a bird’s cage: when the cage
is opened the bird will fly away; or like a stable: it is opened to put
some burden on the animal, which means trouble for the animal.
Think! Which one of these are you? If you are a bird’s cage, you
will fly up as soon as you hear the voice saying, “Attain to thine
Rabb!” As a matter of fact, it is stated in a hadîth-i-sherîf, “The
Arsh shook upon Sa’d bin Mu’âdh’s ‘radiy-Allâhu anh’ death.” If,
– may Allâhu ta’âlâ protect from being so –, you are like a stable,
that is, if you are one of those people about whom Allâhu ta’âlâ
states, “Because they do not consider what they are going to
undergo, they are like animals, or rather, lower (than animals),”
do not doubt that you will fall from your dwelling place down to
the abyss, that is, straight into Hell. One day hadrat Hasan-i-Basrî
‘rahmatullâhi aleyh’ took a glass of cool sherbet in his hand and
was about to drink it, when he suddenly swooned and dropped the
glass onto the floor. When he recovered they asked him what had
happened. He explained, “When I remembered how those people
burning in Hell will call to their friends in Paradise and ask them
to ‘Give us some from the water you drink,’ I was so afraid that I
almost lost my mind.”
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