Chapter V: Oneness of God and Trust in God
It appears from this that the great matter of the Muslims was to love the Messenger of God. Hazrat Anas said: We began to love the Prophet, Abu Bakr and Omar but we could not do divine service like them but yet we cherished hope to live with them.
Hazrat Abu Musa said: I asked, O Messenger of God, one man loves those who pray, but he does not himself pray. He loves those who fast but does not himself fast. The Prophet said: He will be with one whom he loves. One man said to Caliph Omar-b- Abdul Aziz: Every man says from the beginning: If you can be learned, be a learned man. If you cannot be a learned man, be a student. If you cannot be a student, love him if you cannot love him, don't hate him. He said: Glory to God, God madea way for us. The Prophet said: Three classes of men are inmates of Paradise-(l) One who does good deeds, (2) one who loves the doers of good, (3) and one who removes difficulties from the doers of God. So you should not get out of these three classes by taking recourse to envy and hatred. The devil has entered your mind and keeps you out off these three classes. Evil returns to you as God says: 'The evil machination falls on those who contrive it.' Many a time it happens that the snare which is laid for an enemy falls on the person who contrives it.
(2) MEDICINE OF ENVY BASED ON ACTION
To do an action opposite to the cause for which envy aries is its medicine, be it with words or with actions. If your object is to mention the guilts of the envied person out of envy, then the medicine to remove it is to praise him. If the cause is pride, its
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medicine is to treat with him with humility- If envy advises you to destroy another's property, its medicine is to help him.
To drive out envy from mind. Envy is an evil of the mind and not of 9ny organ of the body. God says: They do not find in their minds narrowness for what they were given- God says: They wish that you should turn infidels. God says: When any good reaches you, they become sojrry. The action of envy i$ expressed through back-biting and falsehood. So he will be sinner for entertaining envy in mind. When it is expressed in outer organs of the body, to seek pardon becomes compulsory for it-
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