Whose Door Will I Go To?
Hakeem-ul-Ummah Hazrat Moulana Ashraf Ali Thaanwi Sahib (Rahimahullah) has shared the story of a saint who heard a voice saying:
“No matter how much worship you engage in, nothing will be accepted.”
One of his disciples also heard this voice. The next day he got up for worship and heard the same voice again. When this voice was heard several times, his disciples said to him: “You are a strange person. When it is not accepted (the acts of worship), what is the need for this unnecessary striving?” The saint replied; “Brother, I can give up the worship, but tell me, if I give it up, at whose door will I go to?” The mercy of Allah Ta’ala was ignited by this answer and a voice said, “Even though your worship is not worthy of being called worship, since you have no one apart from Us, We will embrace you as well.”
Hazrat Thaanwi (Rahimahullah) thereafter advised, “Brothers! When a person seeks the truth, this is how he will be. Unfortunately, people do not have even that much of a quest for Allah Ta’ala as they have for alchemy (a method of transmuting base metals into gold). A person will waste away many years in its quest, he will spend all his wealth and possessions, he will give up his rest and comfort, but he will bear no hardship whatsoever in the quest for Allah Ta’ala.”
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This is indeed a sad testimony to the general spiritual state of the Muslims. We are desirous of the highest stages of Jannah but not prepared to exert ourselves in pleasing Allah Ta’ala! A very simple principle shared by the Ahlullah is that we ought to annihilate ourselves contemplating over the sheer mercy and kindness of Allah Ta’ala and we should endeavour never to forget Him!
