Mahzarnama (The Memorandum) — Page 23
Mahzarnama 23 selfless sympathy for His creatures. The obedience to God will take the form of one's being ever- ready to endure insults and humiliation for the purpose of establishing His Glory and Majesty and His Uniqueness. And one's readiness to court death a thousand times in one's endeavours to ensure eternal life for the attribute of His Oneness. And one hand may gladly sever one's other hand if obedience to Him so dictates. And one's love for the magnificence of His Commandments and one's thirst for seeking His approbation may create such disgust toward sin as if it were a consuming inferno, or a lethal poison, or a devastating thunderbolt from which one must flee with all the powers at one's disposal. In other words, one must abandon all the desires of one's ego in order to obey His Wishes, and endure life-threatening injuries if only to ensure becoming grafted to Him, and sever all bondage of flesh in order to demonstrate one's bond with Him. The Service to Allah's creatures takes the form of providing benefit to all other creatures in their numerous needs through a variety of ways and means in which (Allah) the Eternal Allocator has made various creatures dependent on various others by exercising all faculties of one's being, in all such matters purely for the sake of Allah. One must use one's God-given faculties to help everyone who is in need of help, and must strive to improve not only the needy person's position in the worldly life but also his life in the Hereafter. . . . So this tremendous obedience to God and practical service which is mingled with affection and love, and filled with sincerity and perfect genuineness, this indeed is what constitutes Islam, and its essence and its crux, which one attains after one attains ‘death' over one's egoism, (apprehension of) other creatures, greed and self-will. " [Aa’eenah Kamaalaat-e-Islam, Roohaani Khazaa’in vol. 5, pp. 58- 62]