[In the one hundred and fortieth letter of the second volume, Muhammad Ma’thûm Serhendî ‘rahmatullâhi ’alaih’ says: “In a hadîth-i qudsî it was stated: ‘He who feels hostility toward a Walî slave of Mine will (on account of that hostility) have made a war against Me. Among the things [deeds] which bring my born slave closer to Me, I like the fards best. I like very much my born slave who comes closer to Me by making nâfila ’ibâdat. I will be the ears which hear, the eyes which see, the hands which hold things, and the feet which walk, of my born slave whom I like very much. I will certainly give him whatever he wants. I will certainly protect him when he trusts himself to Me.’
” This hadîth-i qudsî has been explained in the third page of the seventeenth chapter of the second part and in the one hundred and eighty-second page of the book Hadîqa, in the one hundred and sixty-fifth page of the Turkish book K›yâmet ve Âhıret, [1] and also in the sixty-second page of the book The Sunni Path. The qurb, (i.e. closeness to Allâhu ta’âlâ,) which is attained by performing the fards, is more than the qurb which is obtained by performing the nâfilas. However, it is the fards performed with ikhlâs that produce qurb. Ikhlâs means to do the worships because Allâhu ta’âlâ commands them. Every Sunnî Muslim has an amount of ikhlâs. Depending on his taqwâ and worshipping, pieces of information pertaining to heart and called fayz (fayd) will come to his heart.
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