We do regard ourselves among the musallīn ...

We do regard ourselves among the musallīn , and we have been engaged in this great worship for decades, without seeing such a light, nor discerning such a preventer in our interior. So, woe to us on the day when the images of our deeds and the list of our acts are handed to us in that world and we are told to check our own accounts.[^6] See if such deeds can be accepted by His Majesty, and whether such a Salat , in such a deformed and darkened form, can bring one nearer to His Presence.

Is it right to treat this great divine trust and the advice of the prophets and awsiyā' (executors of the prophets' wills) in such a way, and to let the treacherous hand of the accursed Satan, the enemy of Allah, meddle in it? The Salat , which is the mi'rāj of the believer and the means of proximity of the pious [^7], why should it keep you away from the sacred proximity to the Divine Presence?

What would be our share on that day except regret, remorse, helplessness, wretchedness, shame and disgrace regret and a remorse which have no equal in this world, and a shame and disgrace which cannot be imagined? This world's regrets are, at any rate, mixed with a thousand kinds of hope, and the shamelessness here is transitory, while there is nothing there except regret and remorse day after day.

Allah, the Exalted, says: “ And warn them of the day of regret, when the matter shall have been decided.” [^8] What has passed cannot be returned and the life which has been wasted cannot be restored. “ O woe to me! For what I fell short of my duty to Allah…” [^9] My dear, this day is the day of opportunities and the grace period for actions.

The prophets came and brought Books, and they proclaimed their calls, with a lot of celebrities, enduring pains and hardships, in order to wake us up from the sleep of negligence and to sober us from the nature's intoxication, and to take us to the world of light and the source of joy and pleasure, and to introduce us to the eternal life, the everlasting bliss and the unlimited delights, and to deliver us from annihilation, misery, fire, darkness, regret and remorse.

All these are for our own benefit, without there being any profit for them, as those sacred personalities are in no need of our faith and deeds.