Guidance for Perceiving Minds — Page 27
27 of His wrath against the Muslims, if only they knew. How did their enemies prevail over them if they were pious? In fact, when they abandoned prayer and worship, their Lord stopped caring for them, so they were punished for what they had done. Surely, the worst of beasts are those who transgressed after they have believed, they do evil and do not fear. Then, because they broke the covenant of Allah and vio- lated the limits of the Furq a n, the misfortunes of time overtook them, and they lost control of many countries. Their heedlessness turned them away from their rights, and the tents of the People of the Cross were set up in their lands, as an exemplary punish- ment from Allah and a seizure from [God] the One that com- pensates. They duelled with Allah by committing sin, and turned their backs in flight from the infidels. It is not their enemies who disgraced them, but it is Allah, for they disobeyed before His eyes, so He showed them what He showed, left them in calamities, and did not save them. Their ministers are fraudulent people who devour their prop- erty and are insincere. They do not prevent them from turning a blind eye and acting immaturely like children. They overlook them as a clever person playing the fool, and they defend them like a hypocrite showing favouritism. They are of two types: a group like scorpions and a group like women, or in other words we can say: a group like inexperienced ignorant who have not been given a share of knowledge, and a group like someone deliberately act- ing like a fool, wishing only for the destruction of their kings, like Satan. They see their sultans approaching the sacred and unlawful things of Allah and the Shariah, then they spread that they are