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foolishly thrown himself into All\h’s I curse, into a destructive limbo,<br />
far away from the mercy <strong>and</strong> love of All\h I. This is what we all have<br />
been warned against <strong>and</strong> is something that the avoiding of must be a<br />
vital goal for everybody.<br />
In the same *ad|th, Nab| Mu#ammad r tells us of three things, which<br />
if adopted, prevent a person from being included amongst those<br />
drowning in All\h’s I curse: <strong>The</strong> first is All\h’s I remembrance <strong>and</strong><br />
those things relating to it. If a person out of love <strong>and</strong> adoration for All\h<br />
I spends time in His remembrance, either by pondering over his gifts<br />
given to us, or by use of the tongue, or by means of just the heart,<br />
beholding His sacred name, one is likely to obtain the mercy of the<br />
Merciful <strong>and</strong> proximity <strong>and</strong> closeness to Him.<br />
<strong>The</strong> second <strong>and</strong> third people mentioned in the *ad|th, (the possessor<br />
of religious knowledge who is a teacher of it <strong>and</strong> the student in search<br />
of religious knowledge respectively) have been given the glad tidings of<br />
being close to All\h I, of being engulfed in his love <strong>and</strong> mercy. A<br />
person should try <strong>and</strong> spend as much time as possible in those things<br />
regarding which closeness to All\h I <strong>and</strong> His love have been<br />
promised.<br />
If one thinks that All\h I enjoys destroying His servants, then one has<br />
unjustly overlooked All\h’s I qualities of being the Merciful <strong>and</strong> the<br />
Compassionate.<br />
We have heard of the incident of N[# u that for 950 years he tried to<br />
propagate the truth to his people.<br />
N[# u said: ’O my people! Indeed I am to you a Warner.’ N[#<br />
But few accepted his call. He raised his h<strong>and</strong>s <strong>and</strong> supplicated to All\h:<br />
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