Adopt Meekness and Humility

With respect to meekness and humility the Promised Messiahas says: …Seek forgiveness of Allah before the punishment of God comes to close the door of forgiveness. While the laws of this world are feared, why is it the laws of God are not? When calamities have occurred one has to go through them.

Everyone should try to get up for tahajjud and to include qunut59 in the five daily Prayers as well. Repent from everything that would incur the wrath of Allah. Repentance means giving up all evil deeds and everything that goes against the pleasure of God and undergoing a true change and making progress and adopting the way of righteousness. In this, too, lies the mercy of Allah. Make your habits decent. Shun anger, replacing it with gentleness and meekness. Along with adopting good morals you should give charity as well.60

Which means that for seeking the pleasure of God you feed the poor, the orphans, and the needy, and you say that you perform these acts only for the pleasure of the Almighty Allah, and you fear that extremely terrible Day.

In brief, pray, ask forgiveness and keep giving charity, so that the Almighty Allah may deal with you with His Grace and Mercy. (Malfuzat, new edition, vol. 1, pp. 134–135)

59.A supplication for help and forgiveness of Allah made in witr

Prayer. 60.(al-Dahr, 76:9)

Then he says:

Friends! Hold fast to this rule: deal with all people with kindness. Kindness increases intelligence, and forbearance promotes deeper thinking. Anyone who does not adopt this way is not of us. Anyone from our Jama‘at who cannot tolerate the abuse and harshness of our opponents is permitted to have recourse to the courts, but it is not appropriate that he should counter harshness with harshness and create a dispute. This is the admonishment we have given our Jama‘at, and we express our displeasure and declare that the one who does not act upon it is not of our Jama‘at. (Tabligh-e-Risalat, vol. 6. p. 170, Majmu‘ah Ishtiharat, vol. 2, p. 472)

Vcondition

That he/she shall remain faithful to God in all circumstances of life, in sorrow and in happiness, in adversity and in prosperity, in felicity and in trial; and that he/she shall in all conditions remain resigned to the decree of God and keep himself/herself ready to face all kinds of indignities and sufferings in His way and shall never turn away from Him at the onslaught of any misfortune; on the contrary, he/she shall march forward.

Allah the Almighty says in the Holy Qur’an:61

And of men there is he who would sell himself to seek the pleasure of Allah; and Allah is Compassionate to His servants.

61.(al-Baqarah, 2:208)

In explaining this verse of the Holy Qur’an, the Promised Messiahas says:

The people of the highest grade among the people—that is, people who are completely lost in the pleasure of Allah, and sell their selves to earn the pleasure of God—are the people upon whom the mercy of Allah descends.… In this verse

Allah the Almighty says, ‘Only he is delivered from all tribulations who sells his self in My way and for My pleasure. He proves with his utmost endeavours that he belongs to God and considers his entire being as something that has been fashioned for obedience of the Creator and service to the creation…’ (Islami Usul ki philosophy, Ruhani Khaza’in, vol. 10, p. 385)

Then he says:

A loved one of God sells his being in the way of God. In return, he earns the pleasure of God. Such are the ones upon whom the special mercy of God descends. (Islami Usul ki philosophy, Ruhani Khaza’in, vol. 10, p. 473)

Then he says:

There are some people who sell their beings hoping that He would be pleased… (Paighami Sulh, Ruhani Khaza’in, vol. 23, p. 473)

For such people, Allah the Almighty has given the glad tiding:62

62.(al-Fajr, 89:28–31)