May Haqq Subhana wa ta'ala bless you with realization of your religious and wordly wishes! The medicine for protection against the harm of worldly flavours and transient blessings is to use them in a manner compatible with Islam. In other words, it is to obey Allahu ta aala's commands and prohibitions.Those flavours will be harmful if they are not utilised compatability with the Islam.They will cause Allahu ta aala's wrath and torment. Maximum possible abstinence from enjoying them is the safest course to follow for real and definite salvation. Those who can not manage that degree of abstinence should use the medicine requisite for protection. Thereby they will be safe from their harms. shame on those people who can nither manage the necessary abstinence nor protect themselves by using medicines and who, thereby, leave them selves vulnerable to patent disasters and afflictions in addition to a pathetic deprivation from eternal happiness! So pitiable are those people who succumb to the indulgences of their nafz and fail to enjoy the worldly flavours in manners and doses prescribed by the Islam, thereby divesting themselves of the felicitous and everlasting flavour of Paradise. Do they not know that Allahu ta aala sees all? Have they never hurt that enjoyment of worldly blessings with in the limits of moderation drawn by Islam is the only way of acquriring immunity from harms? There is the inevitable and imminent Judgement Day, when all the worldly activities of each and every person will be laid before them.
How lucky for those who have attained love of Allahu ta aala by abstaining from His prohibitions in the world, when the Promised Day comes! how lucky for those who do not succumb to the temptation of the sequinned worldly life, who fear their Rabb (Allahu ta aala) and curb their sensuous desires, who advise their house hold and their inferiors that they should perform their daily Salats steadily, how lucky for them! Salams to those peoples who follow the way to felicity shown by Allahu ta aala and who adapt them selves to Muhammad 'alaihis-salam'!
--First Volume,56th Letter
My dear son! The world is sweet in appearance, and yet venomous in essence. It is quite worthless. A person who is caught in its trap can never be free again. A person who dies with that poison is a mere carrion. It is madness to loose one's heart to it. It is like sequinned filth, or sweetened poison. A wise person will not fall for such false and deceitful beauty. He will not set his heart on vicious and harmful pleasure. He will spend his sojourn in this life trying to find favour in his Owner's eyes. he will earn what will be useful for him in the Hereafter. He will do his duties as a slave of Allahu ta aala. He will hold fast to the commandments of Allahu ta aala. He will abstain from His prohibition, i.e. harams. Shame on those who run after harmfulthings instead of doing so!
--Second Volume, 45th Letter
Mans own nafs is the most adamant obstructive curtain between man and Allahu ta aala. "Abandon thy nafs, and come to Me! thy very self is the cloud hiding the sun thou art after! Know thyself, " says the divine word. Pushing the nafs away from between requires a conscientious and delectable process. It cannot be described by words and writings. Nor is it something that can be learned by perusal.It has to be a gift that one was endowed with in the eternal past, and it has to be primed by the attraction of Allahu ta aala. Since we live in a world of causation's, a Wali's lecture will suffice, with the proviso that you should love the Wali. The more you love him, the more will you receive of the fayz and ma'rifats radiating from his heart, attaining perfection at the end. The hadith-i-sherif which reads," A person will be together with his beloved one," expresses this fact.
--Second Volume, 29th Letter
