Sixth Word Applying The Comparison Selling The Trust

O nafs full of caprices! Look at the face of truth through the telescope of this parable. As for the king, he is the Monarch of Pre-Eternity and Post-Eternity, your Sustainer and Creator. The estates, machinery, tools and scales are your possessions while in life's fold; your body, spirit, and heart within those possessions, and your outward and inward senses such as the eye and the tongue, intelligence, and imagination. As for the most noble lieutenant, it is the Noble Messenger of Allah; and the wise decree is the Wise Qur'an, which describes the trade we are discussing in this verse:

اِنَّ اللّٰهَ اشْتَرٰى مِنَ الْمُؤْمِن۪ينَ اَنْفُسَهُمْ وَاَمْوَالَهُمْ بِاَنَّ لَهُمُ الْجَنَّةَ

Verily Allah has purchased from the believers their persons and property that Paradise might be theirs.

The surging field of battle is the tempestuous surface of the world, which ceaselessly changes, dissolves and reforms and causes every man to think:

"Seeing that everything will leave our hands, will perish and be lost, is there no way in which we can transform it into something eternal and so preserve it?"

While engaged in these thoughts, he suddenly hears the heavenly voice of the Qur'an saying: "Indeed there is, a beautiful and easy way which comprises five profits."

What is that way? To sell the trust received back to its true owner. Such a sale yields a fivefold profit.