The Essence of Islam – Volume IV — Page 260
260. Essence of Islam-IV be delivered from the fire; he who weeps for His sake will laugh; and he who cuts asunder from the world for His sake will find Him. Become the friends of. God with a true heart and full sincerity and complete eagerness, so that He should become your friend. . Have mercy on your subordinates and your wives and your less fortunate brethren so that you may have mercy from heaven. Become truly His so that He should become yours. The world is full of calamities, one of which is the plague. Hold fast to God with sincerity so that He should safeguard you against all calamities. No calamity overtakes the earth until there is a command from heaven, and no misfortune is repelled until mercy descends from heaven. Wisdom demands that you should take hold of the root and not of the branch. You are not prohibited from having recourse to the necessary means and appropriate remedies, but you are forbidden to rely upon them. In the end, only that will come about which will be decreed by God. Complete trust in God, if one has the strength for it, is greater than anything else. . An essential teaching for you is that you should not abandon the Holy Qur'an like something forsaken, for therein is your life. Those who honour the Qur'ān will be honoured in heaven. Those who prefer the Qur'ān to every Ḥadīth and every other saying will receive preference in heaven. For mankind, there is no book on the face of the earth except the Qur'an, and for all children of Adam, there is no Messenger and Intercessor but Muḥammad, the Chosen Onesa. Endeavour