Twenty-Three Great Objectives of Building the House of Allah — Page 146
147 supplication is entreated. Allah the Exalted says at this point that God does not care for you in the least; He does not at all care for your deeds; He does not care for your sacrifices at all; and He does not care for your charity at all that you give in His way. Are His treasuries empty that He should seek your wealth? You comply with His commands, endeavour to the best of your ability, and strive in His way, yet He does not care for you in the least. You can benefit from all these things only when you absorb His grace through prayer. Your humble efforts can take you to the seventh heaven only when the manifestation of Ra h m a niyyat is added to the manifestation of Ra hi miyyat. It will be a fallacy to think that you can reach even the first heaven without His grace. You may reach (the lowest hell) without His grace, and you may reach in the lap of Satan, but no one can go in the lap of the Ra h m a n God without His grace and mercy. that is, you deny this reality. Some of you look to be very righteous and observe abstinence, but they pride themselves in their deeds, their supplications, their nightly prayers and the services they render to the people of the world. Allah the Exalted does not care for them in the least unless they supplicate fulfilling all the provisions of the prayer and unless Allah the Exalted accepts their deeds in the zeal of Ra h m a niyyat by accepting their prayer. The phrase (and the punishment of your rejection will now cleave to you ) means that the bad results of your denial will cleave to you. There are very diligent people among some of the Muslim sects who