Remembrance of Allah — Page 5
Introductory Remarks 5 to do so, for I had much love for my Jam a ‘at and this is why I had informed them of those methods. Concerning this, I say that it is not only out of love for my Jam a ‘at that I had explained those techniques. There is no doubt in that I have love, and such a love that no one would have even for his own kith and kin, but I com- municated those ways for this reason as well, that I know the God who has informed me of those ways is such a God that as much as one spends from the wealth He has given, He causes it to increase that much more and it becomes the means for the bestowal of yet greater rewards. This is indeed why I did not empty my home by informing people to the extent that I did; rather, I filled it all the more. Then again, I was certain that by informing people of these, I would suffer no harm at all, for knowledge is not the kind of thing that diminishes upon being spent, but rather it increases upon being spent. But even if I had believed that [it diminishes upon being spent], then, as the Noble Companions ra said, if they had a sword placed upon their neck and they were to remember some- thing that the Holy Prophet s as had said, but which had not yet been communicated to anyone, then before the sword could sever their neck, they would convey that information ( S a hīh al-Bukh ā r ī , Kitābul ‘Ilm, Bābun al-‘Ilmu Qabl al-Qauli wal-‘Amal). 2 Accordingly, I also affirm that even if all the ways that I was expressing were to come to an end as I was communicating them, I would still have set forth all of them. Thus, at that time I conveyed as many as I could, and the thought crossed my mind that I had expressed all the ways relating to prayer that I knew of. However, when I returned home after Prayer and started supplicating, God Almighty taught me so many ways as I had never imagined before.