Do you -saww know when the servant becomes a worshipper?
Do you -saww know when the servant becomes a worshipper?’ قَالَ لَا يَا رَبِّ He -saww said: ‘No, O Lord -azwj !’ قَالَ إِذَا اجْتَمَعَ فِيهِ سَبْعُ خِصَالٍ وَرَعٌ يَحْجُزُهُ عَنِ الْمَحَارِمِ وَ صَمْتٌ يَكُفُّهُ عَمَّا لَا يَعْنِيهِ وَ خَوْفٌ يَزْدَادُ كُلَّ يَوْمٍ مِنْ بُكَائِهِ وَ حَيَاءٌ يَسْتَحْيِي مِنِّي فِي الْخَلَاءِ وَ أَكْلُ مَا لَا بُدَّ مِنْهُ وَ يُبْغِضُ الدُّنْيَا لِبُغْضِي لَهَا وَ يُحِبُّ الْأَخْيَارَ لِحُبِّي إِيَّاهُمْ- He -azwj Said: “When seven characteristics are gathered in him – devoutness cutting him off from the Prohibitions, and silence restraining him from what does not concern him, and fear increasing his crying every day, and modesty embarrassing him from Me -azwj during the isolation, and he eats what there is no escape from, and he hates the world due to My -azwj Hatred for it, and he loves the good people due to My -azwj Love for them.
يَا أَحْمَدُ لَيْسَ كُلُّ مَنْ قَالَ أُحِبُّ اللَّهَ أَحَبَّنِي حَتَّى يَأْخُذَ قُوتاً وَ يَلْبَسَ دُوناً وَ يَنَامَ سُجُوداً وَ يُطِيلَ قِيَاماً وَ يَلْزَمَ صَمْتاً وَ يَتَوَكَّلَ عَلَيَّ وَ يَبْكِيَ كَثِيراً وَ يُقِلَّ ضِحْكاً وَ يُخَالِفَ هَوَاهُ وَ يَتَّخِذَ الْمَسْجِدَ بَيْتاً وَ الْعِلْمَ صَاحِباً وَ الزُّهْدَ جَلِيساً وَ الْعُلَمَاءَ أَحِبَّاءَ وَ الْفُقَرَاءَ رُفَقَاءَ O Ahmad -saww !
Not everyone who says, ‘I love Allah -azwj ’, love Me -azwj , until he takes to daily bread, and wears lowly (clothes), and sleeps in Sajdah, and prolongs standing, and necessitates silence, and relies upon Me -azwj , and cries a lot, and little is his laughter, and he opposes his whims, and he takes the Masjid as a house, and the knowledge as a companion, and the ascetism as a sitting companion, and the scholars as loved ones, and the poor as friends.
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