Bounties of the Gracious God — Page 83
Teachings for the Community Only those shall enter my Community who have embraced the religion of Islam and follow the Book of Allah and the practices of our Chief and the Best of Mankind [Mu h ammad], and believe in Allah, His noble and beneficent Prophet, in the Day of Judgment, heaven and hell, and take the oath that they shall not seek any other religion other than Islam and shall follow this faith, the faith which is in accord with nature, till they die holding fast to the Book of Allah the All-Knowing, and shall follow all those pre- cepts as are proven to have been laid down by the Prophet, the Quran, and by the consensus of the Companions of the Prophet. And, whosoever turns away from these three fundamental sources, such a person throws himself into the fire, and his end is one of ruin and destruction. Therefore, my brothers, you all ought to know that faith is not effective until one adopts piety and right- eousness. Hence, whosoever eschews righteous deeds on purpose and due to his arrogance, such a person is faithless in the eyes of