How to please Allah

Hazrat Ibrahim ibn Adham, when he was still an emperor bought a slave and asked him a few questions. The answers so impressed him that he freed the slave and submitted himself to the path of God. He eventually became a spiritual King and obtained nearness of God.

The nature of the conversation is reproduced below for our benefit:

Hazrat Adham: What will you eat?
Slave: Whatever you will feed me.
Hazrat Adham: What will you wear?
Slave: Whatever you will give.
Hazrat Adham: What is your name?
Slave: Whatever you wish to call me will be my name.
Hazrat Adham: What would you like to do?
Slave: Whatever you will command me to do.
Hazrat Adham: Do you have any desire?
Slave: What does a servant have to do with desires?

There is something very important that we could learn from this conversation especially for those who aspire to please Allah and to obtain nearness to Him.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark