Love - the basis of servitude
“God loves them and they love God.”
The basis of servitude is love; God Almighty says, “God loves them and they love God.”[Surah al-Ma’idah (5): 54]
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The possibility of acquiring proximity
Servitude in all circumstances and afflictions
Man can traverse the straight path of servitude in all circumstances and afflictions, and consequently, acquire proximity.
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The acquisition of praiseworthy attributes
Strive to acquire patience, forbearance, and humility
We must strive to acquire patience, forbearance, and humility, and refrain from having others respect us out of fear.
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Meeting God with the eyes of insight
Meeting God is possible in the Hereafter even in this world
If meeting God is possible in the Hereafter, then so it is even in this world, with the same criterion of possibility; however not with the physical eyes, rather with the eyes of the heart and insight.
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We ourselves are the cause of heedlessness
Muraqabah and muhasabah
We ourselves prepare the causes of danger, heedlessness, and forgetfulness of the remembrance of God almighty. The defects of our acts become apparent as a result of muraqabah (attentive observation) and muhasabah (reckoning).
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We alter the mercy
We do things that change the rains of mercy into punishment!
If we do not become bad, that which descends upon us from above will not become bad; rather we do things that change the rains of mercy into punishment.
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Our benevolent and spiritual fathers
We must be loyal to the Shia scholars
We must be loyal to the Shia scholars. They are our benevolent and spiritual kind fathers and they have many rights upon us.
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Vanity of this contingent world
...we would not give so much value and importance to ‘nothing’
If only we understood the vanity of this contingent world and that we would not give so much value and importance to ‘nothing’, and that we would not have so many disputes with each other over ‘nothing’!
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Trust in God
Achieve peace through trust in God and His remembrance
Man cannot achieve peace through anything other than trust in God and His remembrance; and nothing makes life bitter and horrible the way heedlessness and turning away from His remembrance does.
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The effect of doubtful food
Eating doubtful food and the loss of tawfeeq (Divine Assistance)
Eating doubtful food, as well as eating the food of one, who does not abstain from Haram, although permissible, makes a man ill and prevents him from worship, or becomes of the cause of the loss of tawfeeq (Divine Assistance).
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