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Praise be to Allah Who is
recognised without being seen and Who creates without
trouble. He created the creation with His Might, and
receives the devotion of rulers by virtue of His
dignity. He exercises superiority over great men through
His generosity. It is He who made His creation to
populate the world and sent towards the jinn and human
beings His messengers to unveil it for them, to warn
them of its harm, to present to them its examples, to
show them its defects and to place before them a whole
collection of matters containing lessons about the
changes of health and sickness in this world, its lawful
things and unlawful things and all that Allah has
ordained for the obedient and the disobedient, namely,
Paradise and Hell and honour and disgrace. I extend my
praise to His Being as He desires His creation to praise
Him. He has fixed for everything a measure, for every
measure a time limit, and for every time limit a
document. A
part of the same sermon
The Quran orders as well as
refrains, remains silent and also speaks. It is the
proof of Allah before His creation. He has taken from
them a pledge (to act) upon it. He has perfected its
effulgence, and completed through it His religion. He
let the Prophet leave this world when he had conveyed to
the people all His commands of guidance through the
Quran. You should therefore regard Allah great as he has
held Himself great, because He has not concealed
anything of His religion from you, nor has He left out
anything which He likes or which He dislikes, but He
made for it a clear emblem (of guidance) and a definite
sign which either refrains from it or calls towards it.
His pleasure is the same for all time to come. You should know that He will not
be pleased with you for anything for which He was
displeased with those before you, and He will not be
displeased with you for anything for which He was
pleased with those before you. You are treading on a
clear path, and are speaking the same as the people
before you had spoken. Allah is enough for your needs in
this world. He has persuaded you to remain thankful, and
has made it obligatory on you to mention Him with your
tongues. He has advised you to exercise
fear and has made it the highest point of His pleasure
and all that He requires from His creatures. You should
therefore fear Allah, who is such that you are as though
just in front of Him, and your forelocks are in His
grip, and your change of position is in His control. If
you conceal a matter, He will know of it. If you
disclose a matter, He will record it. For this He has
appointed honoured guards (angels) who do not omit any
rightful matter nor include anything incorrect. You
should know that whoever fears Allah, He would make for
him a way to get out of troubles and (grant him) a light
(to help him) out of darkness. He will ever keep him in
whatever condition) he wishes, and will make him stay in
a position of honour near Himself, in the house which He
has made for Himself. The shade of this house is His
house is His throne, its light is His effulgence, its
visitors are His angels and its companions are His
prophets. Therefore, hasten towards the
place of return and go ahead of (your) deaths (with
provision for hereafter). Shortly, the expectations of
the people will be cut short and death will overtake
them while the door of repentance will be closed for
them. You are still in a place to which those who were
before you have been wishing to return. In this world,
which is not your house, you are just a traveller in
motion. You have been given the call to leave from here,
and you have been ordered to collect provision while you
are here. You should know that this thin skin cannot
tolerate the Fire . So, have pity on yourselves because
you have already tried it in the tribulations of the
world. Have you ever seen the crying of
a person who has been pricked with a thorn or who bleeds
due to stumbling or whom hot sand has burnt? How would
he feel when he is between two frying pans of Hell with
stones all round with Satan as his companion? Do you
know that when Malik (guard-in-charge of Hell) is angry
with the fire, its parts begin to clash with each other
(in rage), and, when he scolds it, it leaps between the
doors of Hell crying on account of his scolding. O you old and big whom old age
has made hoary, how will you feel when rings of fire
will touch the bones of your neck, and handcuffs hold so
hard that they eat away the flesh of the forearms?
(Fear) Allah ! Allah! O' crowd of men, while you are in
good health before sickness (grips you) and you are in
ease before straitness (overtakes you). You should try
for the release of your necks before their mortgage is
foreclosed, your eyes, thin down bellies, use your feet,
spend your money, take your bodies and spend them over
yourselves, and do not be niggardly about them, because
Allah the Glorified, has said: “If you help (in the way) of
Allah, He will (also) help you, and will set firm your
feet. (Quran, 47:7) and He, the Sublime. has said: Who is he who would loan unto
Allah a goodly loan? so that He may double it for him,
and for him shall be a noble recompense. (Quran,
57:11) He does not seek your support
because of any weakness, nor does He demand a loan from
you because of shortage. He seeks your help, although He
possesses all the armies of the skies and the earth and
He is strong and wise. He seeks a loan from you,
although He owns treasures of skies and earth and is
rich and praiseworthy. He intends to try you as to which
of you performs good acts. You should therefore be quick
in performance of (good) acts so that your way be with
His neighbours in His abode; He made His Prophet's
companions of these neighbours and made the angels to
visit them. He has honoured their ears so that the sound
of Hell fire may never reach them, and He has afforded
protection to their bodies from weariness and fatigue. ”That is the grace of Allah,
He bestows it upon whomsoever He wills; and Allah is the
Lord of Mighty Grace. (Quran, 57:21) I say you are hearing. I seek
Allah's help for myself and yourselves. He is enough for
me and He is the best dispenser.
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