Guidance for Perceiving Minds — Page 83
83 what has happened to the Ummah of the Best of Creations s as , and what they read from their sheikhs comes before consolation. They collect everything that is given, even if it is Zak a t money and alms You think they are alive, but they are like the dead, except for a few of Allah’s servants who are like grains of sand in the desert. You find most of them drowning in innovations and evil deeds. Alas for them! What will they say to Allah after death? As the responsibility for the sin of the audacity of Christians and the Christianised [against Islam] is no doubt on these heedless sheikhs and scholars, for all the temptations did not occur except through the negligence of the scholars, the mystics, and the leaders. They will be asked about them on the Day of Recompense. They said, “We are a community of scholars and mystics. ” However, they engaged in unrighteous deeds through audacity and sought their livelihood through machinations and hypocrisy. You can observe that some of their scholars abandoned the pursuit of knowledge and instead turned to farming the earth. They failed to honour their position and neglected seeking Allah’s grace through suppli- cations. They mistakenly believed there was pride in agriculture, forgetting the Hadith that explicitly mentioned “disgrace. ” 1 The crux of the matter is that they chose other occupations, such as farming. How can they shift their focus to debt and sup- port the religion? How can the thoughts of a heap of wheat and 1. The Holy Prophet s as said, “If you sell anything on credit to anyone, on the condition that you will buy it back for a lower price, take hold of the tails of cattle, become pleased with agriculture, and give up Jihad, Allah will make disgrace prevail over you and will not remove it till you return to your religion” ( Sunan Ab i D awu d, Kit a bul-Buy u‘ , Hadith no. 3003). [Publisher]