Our honor is in Islam not in wealth

You have written about not gaining some material things.  Whatever Allah Most High does is good.  Surrender all affairs to Allah Most High and don’t exhaust yourself needlessly over material things. 

 

Is Allah not enough…Surah Zumar (39:36)

 

Remember that our honor depends on faith and gnosis and not on wealth and status. 

 

Work towards perfection of faith and make all efforts to gain the stations of gnosis.  The more effort you put in for this lofty aim, the better.  It is mentioned in Hadith:  The person who turns all his (or her) sorrows into one sorrow (the sorrow of the hereafter), Allah Most High will remove all his (or her) other sorrows.

 

That person is in a loss whose 2 days are the same (i.e. there has been no spiritual progress on the second day when compared to the first).  Busy your hours with litanies and worship.  Use this limited time in building up the edifice of your inward aspect and in illuminating your heart.  The embellishment of the outward aspect leads to dimming of the inward one and vice versa.  And we, the slaves of our desires, run after embellishing our outward aspect.  How can the inward aspect be built up like this?

 

…you should strive towards managing your time and spend your time in important things.  It shouldn’t be that time passes away just like that.  Save yourself from meeting people without any need as this robs the luster of spiritual affinity.  Meeting the creation excessively without any pious intention becomes a means of separation from the Creation.  A saint has said:  Avoid the company of the bad folk and indulge in the company of the good folk only to the extent that it doesn’t lead to separation from the Lord Almighty.

 

A saint has said:  Tasawwuf is nothing but anxiety and restlessness.  When placidity comes, Tasawwuf is gone.  A seeker cannot be without restlessness and without pangs.  There is no Gnostic without pain and without sorrow.

 

When the Pride of the Universe, the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) was attributed with constant anxiety and sorrow, then what to say of others?

 

[Excerpted from Maktoobaat Khaja Masoom Sirhindi Rahimahullah]