The Essence of Islam – Volume IV — Page 154
154. Essence of Islam-IV. Get up during the latter part of the night and seek guidance from God Almighty through weeping and crying and do not waste your time in contriving designs and praying against the Jama'at set up by God. God Almighty will not follow your heedless and misguided designs. He will make manifest to you the follies of your minds and hearts and will help His servant. He will not cut down the tree which He has planted with His own hand. Is there anyone among you who will cut down a tree which he expects to bear fruit? Then why would He, Who is All-Wise and. All-Seeing and Most Merciful, cut down the tree, the blessed season of whose harvest He is awaiting?. When you, being men, would not do such a thing, why would He do it Who knows all hidden things and reaches the bottom of every heart. Remember that in this confrontation you are striking your swords against your own limbs. Do not thrust your hand into fire lest the fire should flare up and consume it. Remember well that had this been man's doing, there would have been many who would have destroyed it and it would not have survived for twelve years, which is an age of maturity. Do you recall any impostor who, having falsely claimed converse with God, has survived for such a long time? It is a pity that you do not reflect nor recall the verses of the Holy Qur'ān, wherein God says with reference to the Holy Prophetsa, that had he falsely attributed the smallest thing to. God, He would have severed his jugular vein. Who is dearer to God than the Holy Prophets, that he should