![]() ![]() mi (1) which is inevitable and inescapable. You should turn away from him who opposes him and leave him and leave whatever he has adopted for himself. Put off your vanity drop your haughtiness and recall your grave because your way passes over it. You will be dealt with as you deal with others you will reap what you sow and what you send today will meet you tomorrow. So provide for your future and send (some good acts) for your day (of reckoning). Fear fear O' listener! Act act O' careless! No one will warn you like him who knows. One of the firm decisions of Allah in the Wise Reminder (Qur'an) upon which He bestows reward or gives punishment and through which He likes or dislikes is that it will not benefit a man even though he exerts himself and acts sincerely if he leaves this world to meet Allah with one of these acts without repenting namely that he believed in a partner with Allah during his obligatory worship or appeased his own anger by killing an individual or spoke about acts committed by others or sought fulfilment of his needs from people by introducing an innovation in his religion or met people with a double face or moved among them with a double tongue. Understand this because an illustration is a guide for its like. Beasts are concerned with their bellies. Carnivores are concerned with assaulting others. Women are concerned with the adornments of this ignoble life and the creation of mischief herein (2). (On the other hand) believers are humble believers are admonishers and believers are afraid (of Allah).
(1) . The word "ummi" has been used in the Holy Qur'an with
reference to the Holy Prophet in chapter 7:157-158. For better understanding of
the word refer to the books of commentary on the Holy Qur'an.
(2) . The intention is to say that the cause of all mischief and
evil is the passion to satisfy bodily needs and the passion to subdue. If a
human being is subjugated by the passion to satisfy bodily needs and considers
filling the stomach as his aim there will be no difference between him and
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