• The peo­ple of truth whose eyes do not see any save God and who al­ways pur­sue His good pleas­ure and know how to re­sist the car­nal self. Their aims for which they make ev­ery ef­fort are so sub­lime that they can­not be pre­vent­ed by any world­ly de­sire and are so pure that they are in ac­cord with the Di­vine com­mand­ments and their lives are or­dered to gain eter­nal hap­pi­ness. The ways they fol­low are free of any doubt and they are al­ways aware of God’s pur­pose in any of their acts even for a mil­li­sec­ond. They avoid fame and any dis­tinc­tion know­ing that servanthood to God is the aim of their ex­is­tence; they val­ue it above all world­ly and oth­er world­ly con­sid­er­a­tions. Their dai­ly lives are de­scribed in the fol­low­ing verse (24:36-37):
  In hous­es which God has al­lowed to be ex­alt­ed and in which His Name is men­tioned: there­in are men who glo­ri­fy Him in the morn­ing and even­ing and whom nei­ther trade nor buy­ing pre­vents from men­tion of God and es­tab­lish­ing the Prayer and pay­ing the pre­scribed Alms; who fear a day when hearts and eyes will be over-turned.
• The faith­ful souls who try to hide from oth­ers their de­gree of re­la­tion­ship with God and their rank with Him: they keep the Di­vine gifts grant­ed to them con­cealed from oth­ers as if they were guard­ing their chas­ti­ty and al­though each is a star in the heav­en of saint­hood they all try to ap­pear as if they were but fire­flies. Though each is a dove striv­ing on God’s way they pre­fer to ap­pear like mag­pies know­ing them­selves to be noth­ing even when they are de­clared in the heav­ens to be so ho­ly as to be among the wor­thi­est in the sight of God. In serv­ing on God’s way they are ex­tra-or­di­nar­i­ly ac­tive dy­nam­ic and hum­ble al­though they out­strip all oth­ers; they are al­tru­is­tic and dis­in­ter­est­ed when it is their turn to re­ceive wa­ges; they have no ex­pec­ta­tions in this world. They are de­scribed in the fol­low­ing verse (5:54):
  A peo­ple whom He loves and who love Him and who are most hum­ble to­wards the be­liev­ers and dig­ni­fied and com­mand­ing in the face of the un­be­liev­ers con­tin­u­ous­ly striv­ing in God’s way in sol­i­dar­i­ty and fear­ing not the cen­sure of any­one to cen­sure them.
  When they are alone with God in de­vo­tion they are ex­tra-or­di­nar­i­ly pro­found while be­ing ex­cep­tion­al­ly wise and suc­cess­ful in world­ly af­fairs. They are re­mark­a­bly care­ful and de­ter­mined when guard­ing the hon­or of their com­mu­ni­ty and they hold them­selves as aloof as pos­si­ble from mean acts which may bring dis­grace up­on them or may cause oth­ers to feel sus­pi­cious.
• The he­roes have reached the sum­mit of per­fec­tion un­der the care and pro­tec­tion of the All-Pre­serv­ing and with the help of the All-Help­ing: they do not spend even a mo­ment with­out Him and use ev­ery event thought and con­sid­er­a­tion as a means to men­tion Him. Self-an­ni­hi­lat­ed in His com­pa­ny they live un­a­ware of them­selves. What­ev­er good they do for oth­ers and what­ev­er serv­ice they rend­er on God’s way they con­ceal it not on­ly from oth­ers but al­so from them­selves. Even if they some­times feel some pride in them­selves they re­gard this as if it were a ter­ri­ble afflic­tion and im­me­di­ate­ly try to es­cape. They spend their lives amidst ec­sta­sy and ex­hil­a­ra­tion and re­joice in the Divine com­pli­ments and in His spe­cial help and per­fect care.
  These he­roes are un­known among peo­ple and re­main hid-den en­vel­oped by se­crets al­though they are God’s fa­vor­ites and among the most vi­tal el­e­ments of ex­is­tence. God the Truth looks at things with their eyes and the uni­verse is fed with the pure wa­ter of their se­crets.

O God! Help us with men­tion­ing You and be­ing thank­ful to You and wor­ship­ping You prop­er­ly.

And may Your bless­ings and peace be on our mas­ter Mu­ham­mad the mas­ter of those who reg­u­lar­ly wor­ship God in the best way pos­si­ble and with sin­cer­i­ty and on his fam­i­ly and all of His Com­pan­ions.