Allah Most High has provided a KEY for each and every goal:
The key to Jannah is the testimony of La ilaha illallah.
Purity (wudu) is the key to salah.
Ihram is the key to Hajj.
Truth is the key to righteousness.
Well intent queries is the key to knowledge.
Patience is the key to Divine assistance.
Thankfulness is the key to increased prosperity.
True love---------Remembrance of Allah is the key to sainthood.
Fear of Allah is the key to success.
Greed is the key to stinginess.
Failure to observe the Sunnah is the key to bid'ah.
Internal inclination is a key to Divine opportunity/ Tawfeeq.
Dua is the key to acceptance.
Austerity in this world is the key to inclination toward the akhirah.
Meditation is the key to Iman.
Iman and sincerity is the key to getting close to Allah.
Pondering over the Qur'an, dua at the time of dawn and abstention from sins is the key for reviving the heart.
Worshipping Allah as though you are seeing Him and endeavoring to benefit the creation is the key for incurring the mercy of Allah.
Seeking forgiveness and fear of Allah is the key to sustenance.
Obedience to Allah and His prophet (PBUH) is the key to respect.
Laziness and the love of luxuries is the key to destruction and deprivation.
- ibn Al Qayyim
