O soul (nafs)! If,
in a brief life, you want to do something that will profit you infinitely in
the hereafter, and you want every moment of your life to be as beneficial as a
life-time, and if you want to transform your habitual actions into worship and
your heedlessness into awareness of the Divine presence, follow the Illustrious
Practices of the Prophet (PBUH). For when you apply your actions to the rulings
of the Shari’a, it affords a sort of awareness of Allah’s presence; it becomes
worship of a sort and yields many fruits for the hereafter. For example, you
bought something. The moment you applied what is acceptable and required by the
Shari’a, that ordinary act of shopping acquired the value of worship. Recalling
the injunctions of the Shari’a calls to mind Revelation. And by thinking of the
Lawgiver, you are turned towards Allah. And that makes you aware of His
presence. That means, in applying the Illustrious Sunna to your actions, are
advantages like making this fleeting life the means of gaining an everlasting
life which produces eternal fruits. Heed the decree:
فَاٰمِنُوا
بِاللهِ وَرَسُولِهِ النَّبِىِّ اْلاُمِّىِّ الَّذِى يُؤْمِنُ بِاللهِ
وَكَلِمَاتِهِ وَاتَّبِعُوهُ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَهْتَدُونَ
So believe in Allah and His Messenger, the unlettered Prophet,
who believes in Allah and His Word: follow him that you may be guided (7-158).
Try to reflect comprehensively the effulgence and manifestation
of all of the Most Beautiful Names, whose manifestations are diffused within
the ordinances of the Shari’a and Illustrious Sunna...
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