Favours of the Gracious God — Page 107
PROLOGUE In discussion of the reasons for writing this book, and an explanation of what I have been taught by Allah, the Great Bestower. O reader of this book! May Allah, the Self-Sustaining, safeguard you from falling into error, and may He be your Helper in all your holy objectives. Surely, this age is an age of extreme injustice: it is like a scorching-hot day, or like a torrid country; knowledge and insight have become lost; innovations in religious matters and rituals have become widespread; all worries and concerns have become devoted to the material world; all things erstwhile keeping warm the love of God became sullied; the once