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hasten to Naysabur (Nishapur) to tackle the problem of this indifference in
religious matters. So strict was the injunction that, had I persisted in disobeying it,
I should at length have been cut off! I came to realize too, that the grounds which
had made retirement permissible had lost their force. „It is not right that your
motive for clinging to retirement should be laziness and love of ease, the quest
for spiritual power and preservation from worldly contamination. It was not
because of the difficulty of restoring men to health that you gave yourself this
permission.‟
Now Allah Most High says: „In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the
Compassionate. Alif, Lam, Mim, Do the people think that they will be left in the
position that they say, `We have believed‟, without their being tried? We tried
those who were before them‟ (Koran 29, 1) and what follows. He (may He be
exalted!) says to His messenger, who is the noblest of His creatures:
„Messengers have been counted false before thee, but they patiently endured the
falsehood laid to their charge and the insults towards them, until Our help came
to them; none can change the words of Allah, and surely there has come to thee
some information about those who were sent (as messengers).‟ (Koran 6, 34).
religious matters. So strict was the injunction that, had I persisted in disobeying it,
I should at length have been cut off! I came to realize too, that the grounds which
had made retirement permissible had lost their force. „It is not right that your
motive for clinging to retirement should be laziness and love of ease, the quest
for spiritual power and preservation from worldly contamination. It was not
because of the difficulty of restoring men to health that you gave yourself this
permission.‟
Now Allah Most High says: „In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the
Compassionate. Alif, Lam, Mim, Do the people think that they will be left in the
position that they say, `We have believed‟, without their being tried? We tried
those who were before them‟ (Koran 29, 1) and what follows. He (may He be
exalted!) says to His messenger, who is the noblest of His creatures:
„Messengers have been counted false before thee, but they patiently endured the
falsehood laid to their charge and the insults towards them, until Our help came
to them; none can change the words of Allah, and surely there has come to thee
some information about those who were sent (as messengers).‟ (Koran 6, 34).