The Essence of Islam – Volume IV — Page 288
288. Essence of Islam-IV planted in the heart. The water that nourishes it irrigates the whole garden. Righteousness is a root without which nothing is of any value, but if this root flourishes, everything flourishes. What shall it profit a man to claim by word of mouth that he is seeking. God, when he does not step forth with sincerity? Reflect, for I tell you truly that the person who pollutes his faith with the least desire for the world will be ruined. Hell is very close to him all whose designs are not for God, but some are for God and others are for the world. If you have the least amalgamation of the world in your objectives, all your worship is in vain. . In such a case, you do not follow God but Satan, and you should never expect God to help you, for you would be like an insect of the earth, and within a few days you would be destroyed like an insect. God will not be in you. Indeed, it will please Him to destroy you. If you truly impose a death upon yourself, then you will appear in God and God will be with you. The house wherein you dwell will be blessed, and God's mercy will descend on the walls of your house, and the city wherein you reside will be hallowed. If your life and your death and your every movement and your mildness and your wrath will become solely for the sake of God, and you will not seek to try God at the time of every hardship and misfortune, and will not cut asunder from Him but will ever go forward, then I tell you truly that you will become a chosen people of God. You are human beings as I am, and my God is your God. Do not waste your pure facul-