Secondary causes are only a veil to occupy the common people. God's elect see through the causes, to the Causer of causes.
—Rumi
The Apostate (al-mulhid)
Him: ghashshaitak (I scammed you).
Me: Have you no fear of Hadhrat Sidna?
Him: No, I don't believe in him.
Me: Have you no fear of Allah?
Him: No, I don't believe in Him.
He then added that anyone who believes in Hadhrat Sidna is a donkey.
Thus we descended into poverty.
There are some who think that my attacks against the apostate are of a personal nature. Nothing could be further from the truth. On the contrary, he has been a blessing in my life. From both a spiritual and materialistic perspective. We sing his praises in our household.
First the spiritual. I was particularly hard-headed when I was young and it was he that convinced me to join the tariqa. And when he scammed me, he himself noted that rather than driving me away from the faith, as was his intention, it actually made me double my efforts. He was first my jamal and then my jalal (see below).
Now the material. Because of his actions, I lost a $40k a year job. That and subsequent health problems ended my career in electronics. Incidentally, the electronics trade, due to continued miniaturization has been dead ending, resulting in low pay. Having been thrown into the business world, we went through some tough times and a series of events led me to the stock market. I currently approximate an income of $400k a year, while I sleep. My income has increased tenfold, and climbs by $50k a year.
As you can see, when he intended good for me, I received good. And when he intended evil for me, Allah changed it into good. We say that it was through him that Allah constrained our sustenance, and it was through him that Allah expanded our sustenance. We are the people of La illaha illah Allah, and in all things, we see nothing but the Hand of Allah. The apostate was only unjust to himself (ma dhalama illa nafsahu).
And if Allah should touch you with adversity, there is no remover of it except Him; and
if He intends for you good, then there is no repeller of His bounty. He causes it to reach
whom He wills of His servants. And He is the Forgiving, the Merciful. —Qur'an 10:107
No, my attacks against the apostate are purely of a spiritual nature. For it is the nature of one who has lost his faith to practice tashaitana (act in the manner of Satan), attempting to pull others away from the faith. As is our duty to fight against it, as Allah has commanded.
And it must be remembered that the apostate came to his apostasy by way of libertinism, i.e., he was a libertine before he was an apostate. He has become wahshi (bestial) in nature, completely ruled by his passions, obsessing compulsively about drinking and sex.
Have you seen he who has taken as his god his [own] desire, and Allah has sent him
astray due to knowledge and has set a seal upon his hearing and his heart and put over
his vision a veil? So who will guide him after Allah ? Then will you not be reminded?
—Qur'an 45:23
And true to form, we found him pedalling a libertine doctrine within the tariqa. Last we saw, he had taught his niece, and like him, she was drinking and whoring herself, and cursing our sheikh and the tariqa. And she was working on his behalf to corrupt our youth.
As for the apostate, he needs a spiritual mirror to see himself. In the reflection, he would see a donkey staring back at him.
Notes:
apostate - unlike an atheist who has never believed, an apostate rejects faith after having been a believer, considered to be one of the major sins in Islam (min al-kaba'ir).
The heart of the believer is between two fingers of the All-Merciful, He turns it as He pleases. —Hadith
Our sheikh has added, they are jamal and jalal.
jamal (beauty) - the force that attracts you to Allah.
jalal (majesty) - the force that pushes you toward Allah.
secondary causes - Ar. asbab
Causer of causes - Ar. musabbib al-asbab, i.e., Allah.