This letter was written for Kkwâja Sheref-ud-dîn Huseyn. It explains that everything that a person
experiences daily happens through the Will of Allâhu ta’âlâ, and that we should savour whatsoever befalls us daily:
May Allahü teâlâ bless you with the great fortune of making progress in the way guided by Islam, the
religion revealed through Muhammed ‘alaihis-salâm’, so that He attach you to Himself in all respects! Oh my valuable and discerning son! Everything that a
person encounters daily comes into being as a result of the Will and Creation of
Allâhu ta’âlâ. Therefore, we should adapt our wills to His Will! Whatsoever we undergo, whe should look on them all
as things we have been looking forward to, and we should rejoice to attain them. This is the way a qul (a creature and born-slave of
Allâhu ta’âlâ) should be. We should be so if we are quls! Not to be so means not to admit being a qul and to defy
one’s Owner. Allâhu ta’âlâ declares as follows in
a hadîth-i-qudsî: “If a person does not bow to My qadâ and qadar[1] and is not patient about
the disasters I send onto him, let him look for a Rabb other
than Me for himself. Let him not stay on the earth as a qul of Mine!” Yes. Numbers of poor
and destitute people and many another person under your protection have been
living peacefully owing to the security and compassion you have been providing
them with. Nothing in the name of sorrow has been familiar to them. Their real
owner will continue protecting them. You will
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[1] Please see the fourth fascicle of Endless
Bliss!
always be remembered for your goodnesses. May Allâhu ta’âlâ plentifully reward you
for your goodnesses, both in this world and in the Hereafter! I extend
my salâm.