30. NOTHING ESCAPES THE KNOWLEDGE OF ALLAH
I looked into the proofs attesting the existence of Allah, Most High, and found them to be more than the number of grains of sand. One of which is that a person conceals what he knows is disliked by Allah, but Allah, Exalted is He, eventually makes the effect of such disobedience to appear on him, and lets tongues utter it even if people have not witnessed it happening.
Moreover, He may facilitate for him a sin by which he becomes exposed among people and thus it becomes an answer to all the sins he previously hid so that he understands there is One who will punish sinners, and that no barrier or shelter will ever suffice before His Capacity’ and Power.
The same applies to a person performing a good deed in secret. Its effects appear on him and he becomes the talk of people, and even more than what he did, to the extent that people never recall he ever did a sin and only remember his good attributes. This is just to show mankind that there is a Lord who will not waste the effort of those who do good deeds.
The hearts of people recognise the condition of people and so they either love or hate, or praise or condemn him according to the relationship he has with Allah, Most High, who will suffice him for every concern and avert harm away from him.
Thus, whenever a slave [of Allah] rectifies his relationship with the people without paying attention to Allah, his goals will turn out opposite to what he intended, and the one he expected to praise him will condemn him instead.
(source: al-Hafiz Abu’l-Faraj ibn al-jawzl [d. 597AH] “CAPTURED THOUGHTS being” a translation of his masterpiece ‘Sayd al-K hatir)
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