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sallam, and they kept themselves busy in following them day and night. They would not follow the unbelievers even in the matters of their customs. All the time that Islam was passing through these conditions, it was in its supremacy, the reason being that "If you have God with you, you have nothing to worry about. " The key to the successes and victories of the Muslims was also faith. {Malfoozat Vol. II, p. 157) DO NOT NEGLECT GOD I do not mean that the Muslims should become lethargic. Islam does not make anyone lethargic. They should carry on their. trades and services as usual. But what I really do not like is that they should have no place for God. They should trade when it is time for them to trade but while trading they must have the fear of God in their hearts so that their trade, too, may ·become an act of worship. At the time of the daily prayers, they should offer the prayers-and they should not ignore them. Whatever the work in hand, they should give preference to religion; their ultimate target should not be the gains of this world; it should be the gains of religion. That being the case, their worldly affairs will also become matters of religion. Look at the Companions of the Holy Prophet, sallallaho alaihi wa sallam. They did not abandon God even at the time of greatest difficulties. You know the battlefield is a difficult place, so much so that the very idea ofit frightens the people. To be in the battlefield is to be passing through the time of 82