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Once, Ibrahim bin Adhem Rahmatullah alayh asked a certain person, “Don’t you aspire to be a friend of Allah?”
The man replied,”Certainly,” and the Sheikh said to him, “Turn your thoughts away from all things, worldly or other-worldly, and devote your whole hearted attention to Him, to the exclusion of everything else. Concentrate your thoughts on Allah alone, so that He might turn His attention to you and choose you for His friend (Wali).” (RAUDH)
It occurs in a Sahih (authentic) Hadith that Nabi Sallallahu ‘Alaihi wa Sallam reported, Allah Ta’ala as saying:,”if anyone comes to Me walking, I shall come to him running and if anyone draws near to Me the length of a span, I shall draw near him one Ba’a i.e. the length of two arms.“
Fadhaail-e-Sadaqaah, Anecdotes of Ascetics, Incident Forty Four, pg 666
