Hallmarks of the Saints — Page 18
H AL L M AR KS OF T HE S AIN TS 18 is [the bounty] from their Lord since they detach themselves from the world and forget it. In fact, they rush towards Allah and their tears continually flow in His remembrance. They are the peo- ple who consider this world to be as negligible as the amount a tiny ant can lift with its mouth. Since inciting the soul for this [material world] is misguidance, wherefore these are those knives through which the [sacrificial] slaughter is made. Its [the world’s] seekers are lambs [which need to be slaughtered]; its water is little and its food is fatal. The world is like a woman who is in the habit of refusing her husband under the pretext of menstruation. Its face is like a with- ered old man who has completely lost his elegance. Its beginning is ease but its end is hardship; you will not find anything more wicked than it. Beware! It is the tree of Zaqq u m; 1 do not, there- fore, mistake it for a cluster of grapes. That is why the servants of God have drawn a sharp sword against it; they neither grab it with their hands nor do they seek to milk it; they have divorced 1. Zaqq u m denotes the tree of disbelief. The Quran has compared true belief to a good tree which brings forth its fruit at all times (14:25–26) and disbelief to an evil tree— Zaqq u m (14:27). [Publisher] وإِذهالٌ، وإىل هللا إِرْقالٌ، ويف ذِكره ارْمِعْالل ٌ. هم قوم حيسبون أن منها اخلزال الدنيا زِابلٌ، وإزعال ُ النفس به ضاللٌ، وإهنا مُدًى يُذبَح هبا وطالِبوها سِخالٌ، ُا كَقِحْل ٍ ما هت ُا اإلعراض كمُفسِّلة ٍ وصور هت وماؤها ضَهْل ٌ وطعامها اغتيالٌ، وسري بقي فيه مجالٌ، وأوّلُا أَوْن ٌ وآخرها اقْذِعْاللٌ. ال جتد كمثلها قـُرْزُالً، وإهنا زقّوم ٌ فال حتسبها قُعاالً، ولذلك سَل َّ عليها عباد ُ الرمحن سيفًا قَصّاالً، وما أخذوها بيديهم