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rity. On the other hand, people who do not put their trust in
Allah and do not yield themselves to Him, spend their entire
lives in fear, anxiety, distress, panic, insecurity, dissatisfaction,
greed, anger, depression, regret, envy etc. Allah places tur-
moil in the hearts of those people on account of their disbelief.
He does not let them enjoy the ease, comfort and peace of put-
ting their trust in Him. The distress of those who do not rely
on Allah is described in the Qur'an as follows:
When Allah desires to guide someone, He expands
his breast to Islam. When He desires to misguide
someone, He makes his breast narrow and con-
stricted as if he were climbing up into the sky. That
is how Allah defiles those who have no faith. (Surat
al-An'am: 125)

Be people of pure natural belief in Allah, not associ-
ating anything else with Him. As for anyone who as-
sociates others with Allah, it is as though he had
fallen from the sky and the birds had seized him
and carried him away or the wind had dropped him
in a distant place. (Surat al-Hajj: 31)

91. How does one pray in action?

Prayer in action is to keep on asking for something by
means of verbal prayer while exerting oneself and doing ev-
erything needed to bring about the desired result. For exam-
ple, when a person wants to drink some water, he does not
sit and wait for it to appear in front of him; instead he pours
some water into a glass and then drinks it. In other words,
in order to get what he asks from Allah, he acts according to
the causes and rules that Allah has taught him and then ex-
pects the best result from Allah. Likewise, one may want to

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