This letter, written to Mirzâ Manû Jahr, gives advice.
May Allahu ta’âlâ bless you with an
auspicious life! Giving you happiness and goodness, He makes you forget about
the tragedies that befell on you! My child! When a person is young, the desires
of the nafs surround him. The time of youth, however, is the most profitable
time for learning knowledge and worshipping. During this time, which is the
time when lust and fury invade a person, to carry out one commandment of the
Sharî’at is much more valuable than the same worship which is done when one is
old. [Especially if other obstacles join them, the worship which is done by
overcoming them will increase the blessings so much that only Allahu ta’âlâ
knows how much.] For the difficulty and trouble in doing a worship against
obstacles will exalt the honour of a worship to the skies. Acts of worship that
are done easily and without any obstacles to prevent them will remain lower. It
is for this reason that the higher ones among men have become higher than the
highest ones of angels. This is because man worships among obstacles. But
angels obey the commandments without any obstacles. During the time of war, the
value of a soldier increases and his one insignificant deed done in combat
becomes more valuable than all his efforts done in the time of peace. The
desires of youth are things which the nafs and the Devil like, but they are the
enemies of Allahu ta’âlâ. The things that conform with the Sharî’at are the
things which Allahu ta’âlâ likes. It is not worthy of wise and intelligent
people to please the enemies of Allahu ta’âlâ, while, by doing so, angering the
real owner who gives all blessings. May Allahu ta’âlâ bless us with doing
reasonable actions and protect us against being deceived by the nafs, by the
Devil, or by the sayings and writings of the enemies of religion! [Especially
at a time when the irreligious, those who ridicule Muslims, are on the
increase, and when propaganda causing Muslim children to deviate from the
religion is spreading, little worship will be given much greater rewards,
provided that it is correct. Our Prophet (sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam)
declared: “O my Ashâb!
You have come at such a time that you will be destroyed, you will go to Hell,
if you do not do one-tenth of Allah’s commands, though you do nine-tenths of
them! However, there will come such a time that at that time, Muslims will be
saved from Hell, if they do one-tenth of the commands and cease from doing
nine-tenths of them. How lucky for those with îmân at that time.”]