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So the basic compulsory subjects are for the ordinary people as they take a man to basic salvation which is like living with a life. The additional things which lie behind this basic salvation bring fortune and perfection for which the prophets, saints and the friends of God strived hard and for which they gave up the pleasures of this worldly life. Even when Jesus Christ took a stone to be used as a pillow for sleep, the devil came him and said: You have not given up the world for the next world. He said: Yes, how have you understood it? The devil said: You are using this stone as a pillow is included within the pleasure of the worJi.Why did you not place your head on the earth? Jesus durst then threw away the stone and placed his head upon the ground.

His throwing off the stone is his Tauba or return from that pleasure. To place the head upon the ground is not compulsory on the general public, but Jesus Christ did so to acquire the highest merit. Do you not notice that our Prophet threw off a cloth which he put on as it turned away his attention from prayer owing to its varied colours. It is not compulsory on his followers.
He did it to acquire the highest rank. This is Tauba or return from a slip of mind. Do you not notice that Hazart Abu Bakr vomited out the milk which he had drunk as he came to know afterwards that it was not earned lawfully? But it is no sins to eat an unlawful thing unknowingly and Shariat does not make compulsory to take it out from stomach. Think of these people who were the most informed of men regarding God, God's path and God's Marfat. You take great care that you may not be deceived by anybody in this world. What a great care you should take npt to be deceived regarding the affairs of God and the next world. "

Abu Solaiman Darani said: If a wise man does not weep during the rest of his life for defect in his divine service, he shall feel sorrow up to his death. Every moment of life or every breath is a treasure. There is no exchange of it as it is the basic thing, h will take you to everlasting fortune and rescue you from everlasting misfortune. If you lose it uselessly and negligently, .
you will be a great loser. If you spend it in sin, you will spoil you/

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best treasure. If you do not weep for this loss, it will be for your mere ignorance. The danger of ignorance is more than that of all other things. All men are asleep. When they die, they are awake.
Then their poverty will be disclosed to them.

A certain Aref said: If the angel of death informs a man that a

moment only is left for his life his grief rises to such a degree that

in exchange of everything in the world he hopes to get some

leisure to get an opportunity to make Tauba for his past

misdeeds, but that is not to be. God says: Spend out of what I

have given before death comes to one of you, lest one of you say:

O Lord, if you give me a little time, I will make charity and be one