One Must Always Direct One’s Thoughts to God
Turning away from God and diverting all attention to those He created is illogical and unscrupulous. If one does not give his attention to God and act solely according to those He created, God would crush that person. The goal there is to make it possible for that person to turn towards God.
Being sad is clearly unlawful according to Islam; it is forgetting God and it is idolatry. A person who is sad – may God forbid- is actually saying ‘ I do not believe that God is creating the best of everything, I do not like the destiny God has created.’ God would instantly respond to such an act, take away one’s wisdom and such a person would be prone to making all sorts of mistakes.
Ascribing individual power to incidents and individuals, imagining that they have their own powers would be idolatry and also cruelty in the Sight of God. God is the One Who creates every incident, everything is under God’s control. Nothing happens unless God wills so.
A person who puts his trust in God, who submits to God would never ascribe any partners to God. If a person who has fallen ill says ‘ I will now go to the doctor’s, the doctor will give me a pill and that pill will heal me,” that person would be ascribing partners to God. One should say ‘I will go to the doctor’s and God will make the pill the doctor will prescribe instrumental and if God wills so, I will get better.”
It would not be compliant with the Qur’an for a person to be worried about the future. A person who worries about the future shows that he imagines that there is a force other than God forgetting that everything is under the command of God; and that would be idolatry. Idolatry is ascribing partners to God and is a grave sin.
They [some people] don't understand God’s laws; that’s why they are so worried about everything. They think that every object, every being in the world is independently capable. They wrongly think that cars, houses, medications, in short everything has a power that is independent from God. That’s why they are continuously suffering, continuously in pain. If they comprehended that there is only one God and only God has power, if they surrendered to God, they would have lived very comfortably.
