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Read the table of your heart and remember what happened to viziers such as Nizamul
Mulk and Tahul Mulk, who are now in the next world. These viziers saw with their own
eyes the dreadful fall of their predecessors and yet they did not take warning. They
knew that death must overtake them, but they made no preparations for it. They did not
think over the transitoriness of the world and want of judgment in those who pretended
to give praise and the narrowness of the space within which it was circumscribed and
now, where are they? Nowhere - Allah says: "Is it not a guidance to them, how many
generations We destroyed before them in whose dwelling places they walk? Surely, in
this there are signs for those of reason." Koran, Chapter 20 verse 128. "Did We not
destroy the ancients and cause others to follow them?" Koran, Chapter 77 verses 16-
17.
Why then do you choose to act in the same way as these viziers and why do you not
leave those agitations, which are foreign to your constitution? Look within. Within is a
fountain of good and it will ever bubble up if you dig. Remember, if Allah makes the end
to shine for you in the light of His Mercy, you will abandon yourself utterly to Allah and
devote your entire energy to His worship but adhere to the principles of justice and
equity.
Mulk and Tahul Mulk, who are now in the next world. These viziers saw with their own
eyes the dreadful fall of their predecessors and yet they did not take warning. They
knew that death must overtake them, but they made no preparations for it. They did not
think over the transitoriness of the world and want of judgment in those who pretended
to give praise and the narrowness of the space within which it was circumscribed and
now, where are they? Nowhere - Allah says: "Is it not a guidance to them, how many
generations We destroyed before them in whose dwelling places they walk? Surely, in
this there are signs for those of reason." Koran, Chapter 20 verse 128. "Did We not
destroy the ancients and cause others to follow them?" Koran, Chapter 77 verses 16-
17.
Why then do you choose to act in the same way as these viziers and why do you not
leave those agitations, which are foreign to your constitution? Look within. Within is a
fountain of good and it will ever bubble up if you dig. Remember, if Allah makes the end
to shine for you in the light of His Mercy, you will abandon yourself utterly to Allah and
devote your entire energy to His worship but adhere to the principles of justice and
equity.