Moreover, Allāh is the kindest of the kind. “Honour My contract and I will honour your contract.” Whoever’s goal is Allāh’s good-pleasure, seeking to draw close to Him, knowing Him, loving Him, and serving Him, will find that Allāh will treat him accordantly. This proves that Allāh’s concern with His servant and His safeguarding him is commensurate to the servant’s concern with the rights of Allāh, establishing them, tending to His limits and safeguarding them. Allāh grants a person the same standing as Allah has with that person.” The ḥadīth of Jābir has the Prophet (sall Allāhu ʿalayhi wa sallam) saying, “Whoever wants to know the standing he has with Allāh, let him look to himself and see the standing that Allāh has with him. Allāh knows them better than you and He will direct them to you in the best of ways. What this means is that when you establish due taqwā of Allāh you need not worry any more about those things that will be good for you. “Son of Ādam, will you not tell me what gives you cause to laugh? Son of Ādam, have taqwā of Me and then sleep wherever you wish!”’ One of the earlier scriptures mentions, ‘Allāh, Mighty and Magnificent, says,

ʿAbdu’l-Karīm said, ‘Allāh, Mighty and Magnificent, says, “By My might and magnificence, I do not look at a heart that I know loves to obey Me, and does so diligently, except that I will undertake to protect his circumstances and keep him firm.”’ One of the Salaf would go to gathering after gathering saying, ‘Whoever wants Allāh to preserve his well-being, let him have taqwā of Allāh.’Īl-ʿUmarī, the ascetic, would say to anyone who asked him for advice, ‘Be with Allāh, Mighty and Magnificent, in exactly the same way that you want Him to be with you.’ Whoever does not wish to be afflicted by anything he dislikes, let him not undertake what Allāh dislikes. Whoever wants Allāh to preserve him and tend to all of his affairs, let him first tend to Allāh’s rights on him. Whoever establishes the rights of Allāh, Allāh will safeguard everything that will benefit him in this life and the next. “Whoever puts his trust in Allāh, He will be enough for him.” “That is because Allāh is the Protector of those who have faith and because the disbelievers have no protector.” “Allāh is the Protector of those who have faith He brings them out of the darkness into the light.” In His Book, Allāh (subḥānahu wa taʿālā) has informed us that He is the Protector of the believers and that He protects the righteous subsumed by this is the fact that He safeguards what is good for them both in this life and the Hereafter, and that He will not abandon them to another.

The Spiritual Cure by Abu Rumaysah