THE TWELFTH DISCOURSE On the prohibition of love and wealth

He (God be pleased with him) said: * When God the Mighty and Glorious gives you wealth and you are diverted by it from obedience to Him, He screens you away, on account of it, from Himself both in this world as well as in the hereafter. And it is also possible that He may take away the gift from you and change you and reduce you to poverty as a punishment for you turning away from the Giver, attracted by the gift. And if you engage yourself with obedience to Him and become indifferent towards the wealth, God will make a free gift of it to you and will not lessen it even by an atom. Wealth is your servant and you are the servant of the Lord. Therefore live in this world under His loving care and in the hereafter honourably and in ease in the garden of abiding residence, in the company of the truthful (siddiqs), witnesses {shahids) and the virtuous (salihs).