The Essence of Islam – Volume IV — Page 267
Propagation, Establishment of a Holy Jama'at, and Instructions 267 ceed without the help of God. If you will not supplicate Him for help, and will not make it your rule to seek strength from Him, you will achieve no success and will die in sorrow. Do not wonder why other people seem to succeed, while they are not even aware of the existence of God Who is your Perfect and Mighty. Lord. It is because they have been subjected to the trial of the world on account of their abandoning God. . He sometimes tries a person, who abandons Him and seeks the attractions and the joys and pleasures of the world and runs after its riches, by opening the doors of the world to him. Such a one is wholly deprived of faith. In the end, he dies with his mind devoted wholly to the world and is cast into eternal hell. . Sometimes, such a person is tried by being deprived of the world also. But this latter kind of trial is not as fearful as the former, for the one who is subjected to the former becomes more arrogant. In any case, both these paths earn the wrath of God. The fountainhead of true prosperity is God. How can these people attain true prosperity when they are unaware of the EverLiving and Self-Supporting God and are heedless of. Him and turn away from Him? Blessed is he who understands this mystery and ruined is the one who does not. . You should similarly not follow the philosophers of this world, nor look upon them with honour, for they only pursue follies. The true philosophy is that which. God has taught you in His Word. Those who are in love with the secular philosophy are in ruin and truly