you—may Allah have mercy on you—each of you, according to the measure of his means [ق 110] and ability: through his deeds, his words, his pen, his heart, and his supplication. All of that is jihad. I pray that no one who deals with Allah by means of any of these will be disappointed, for there is no true life except in this. Even if nothing else came of it but that your aspirations (1) jostle the people of deviance, unsettle them, make you loathe them for the sake of Allah, and move you to seek their uprightness in the religion of Allah, that alone would be part of the inward jihad, Allah willing.

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Recognize, then, my brothers, the full worth of the favor Allah has shown you by enabling you to undertake this task; recognize the path that led you to it, and thank Allah for it. He has set up for you and for us in this age a man like our master the Shaykh, through whom Allah unlocked the padlocks of hearts and lifted from discerning minds the blindness of specious doubts and the perplexity of misguidance, at a time when reason was lost among these factions and could not (2) reach the reality of the Messenger’s religion ﷺ.

It is astonishing that every one of those factions claims to be upon the Messenger’s faith, until Allah, by means of this man, unveiled for us and for you the true religion He sent down from heaven and approved for His servants.

Know that, across the horizons of the world, people live their entire lives among those factions, convinced that such innovations are the very substance of Islam; they know Islam only in that distorted form!

So thank Allah, Who, at the head of the seven-hundreds after the Hijrah, raised up for you someone who clarified (3