Hadith 6

t are pegs of the earth. They cannot be pegs except with these. O Ahmad-saww! When the servant keeps his belly hungry, and protects his tongue, I-azwj Teach him the wisdom, and if he were to be a Kafir, his wisdom would be an argument upon him and a scourge, and if he were to be a Momin, his wisdom would be a Noor for him and a proof, and a healing, and a mercy. Thus, he would know what cannot be known, and he would have insight of what cannot be sighted. The first of what I-azwj would Make him to be insightful of are faults of his own until he is too pre-occupied from faulting others, and I-azwj will Cause him to have insight intricacies of knowledge until the Satan-la cannot enter to see him. O Ahmad-saww! There isn’t anything from the worship more Beloved to Me-azwj than the silence and the fasting. The one who fasts and does not protect his tongue, would be like the one standing (for Salat) and does not recite (Quran) in his Salat. So I-azwj Give him Rewards of the standing and do not Give him Rewards of the worshippers. O Ahmad-saww! Do you-saww know when the servant becomes a worshipper? ’
He-saww said: ‘No, O Lord-azwj! ’
He-azwj Said: “When seven characteristics are gathered in him – devoutness cutting him off from the Prohibitions, and silence restraining him from what does not concern him, and fear increasing his crying every day, and modesty embarrassing him from Me-azwj during the isolation, and he eats what there is no escape from, and he hates the world due to My-azwj Hatred for it, and he loves the good people due to My-azwj Love for them. O Ahmad-saww! Not everyone who says, ‘I love Allah-azwj’, love Me-azwj, until he takes to daily bread, and wears lowly (clothes), and sleeps in Sajdah, and prolongs standing, and necessitates silence, and relies upon Me-azwj, and cries a lot, and little is his laughter, and he opposes his whims, and he takes the Masjid as a house, and the knowledge as a companion, and the ascetism as a sitting companion, and the scholars as loved ones, and the poor as friends. And he seeks My-azwj Satisfaction, and flees from the disobedience with a fleeing, and he pre-occupies with My-azwj Zikr as pre-occupation, and he frequents the glorification constantly, and he becomes truthful of the promise, and loyal with the pact, and his hearing becomes clean, and is pure in the Salat, and striving in the obligations, and desirous of the Rewards regarding what is with Me-azwj, and fearful from My-azwj Punishment, and pairs and sits to My‑azwj loved ones. O Ahmad-saww! If the servant were to pray Salat of people the sky and the earth, and fasts fasting, and he bends from the (lack of) food like the Angels, and wear the clothing of the bare, then I-azwj See in his heart a particle of love of the world, or it’s capaciousness, or its governance, or its ornaments, or its adornments, he will not be in My-azwj Vicinity in My-azwj House, and I-azwj will Remove My-azwj love from his heart. And upon you-saww is My-azwj Greetings and My-azwj Mercy! ” And the Praise is for Allah-azwj, Lord‑azwj of the worlds’’. [8]