On removing the cares of the heart [Qalb] ..Futuh Al Ghaib

Always keep His commandments, always respect His prohibitions, and always submit to what He has decreed. Do not associate Him with any part of His creation. Your will, your passions and your carnal appetites all belong to His creation, so refrain from indulging any of them lest you become a polytheist. Allaah Almighty has said:

Whoever hopes to meet his Lord, let him do righteous work, and make none sharer in the worship due unto his Lord. 

[Qur’aan]

Polytheism [shirk] is not merely the worship of idols. It is also polytheism to yield to your own passionate desire, and to equate with your Lord [Allaah Almighty] anything whatsoever besides Him, be it of this world and its contents or of the Hereafter and what is contained therein.

What is besides Him [Almighty Allaah] is other than He, so when you rely on anything other than Him you are associating something else with Him. Therefore be wary and do not relax your guard, be fearful and do not develop a sense of security, and keep your wits about you so that you do not become careless and complacent.

Do not attribute any state or station to yourself, and have no pretensions to such things. If you are granted a special state, or elevated to some station, do not become identified with that in any way at all, for Allaah is every day about some business, effecting change and transformation.

Allaah Almighty has said:

Such of Our revelations as We abrogate or cause to be forgotten, We replace with one better or as good. Do you not know that Allaah has power over all things? 

[Al Qur’aan]

So do not underestimate the extent of  Almighty Allaah’s Power, have no misgivings about His Planning and His Management, and never doubt His Promise.

 Thus he was trained to practice praying for forgiveness, because that is the best state for a servant, and constant repentance, because this involves acknowledgment of sin and shortcoming of properties of human nature inherited from  Prophet Aadam [Alaiehis Salaam], the father of Mankind.

When the purity of Prophet [Alaiehis Salaam]  spiritual state was stained by forgetfulness of the promise and covenant, he wished to dwell forever in the abode of peace, in the vicinity of the All-Merciful and Beneficent Friend, visited by the Noble Angels with greeting and salutation, but his self-will had come to be associated with the will of the Truth. 

Holy Quraan 7:23 

Then came to him the light of guidance, the knowledge and inner understanding of repentance and its hidden benefits, but for which something formerly mysterious would not have become manifest. 

That old will was replaced by a different one, and the original state by another. He received the supreme consecration, and repose in this world and then in the hereafter, for this world became a home for him and his offspring, and the hereafter their refuge and eternal resting place.

In Allaah’s Messenger’s and favorite friend, the Chosen of Allaah Al Kareem, ancestor of all dear and loving friends, you have an example to follow in confessing faults and praying for forgiveness under all circumstances.

Seventh Discourse from Futuh al-Ghaib

written by our Great Teacher.