The Real Revolution  

Sayyid Abdul Qadir Jilani (may Allah be pleased with him)  has written in his book Futuhul Ghaib (Revelations of the Unseen):

If you desire to become an accepted one of God, then believe with utmost certainty and understand that your hands, your feet, your tongue, your eyes, and your whole being, and all its organs, are like idols in your way, and all other creation is similarly an idol barring your path. Your children, your wife, the worldly objectives you wish to achieve, worldly riches, worldly honour and prestige, every worldly hope and fear, your reliance or trust in anyone or anything, your fear of being harmed by anyone, all these are idols in your way. So do not become subservient to any of these idols, and do not lose  your way in pursuit of them. That is, have recourse to them within the bounds of the shariah and the way of the righteous. If you succeed in this you will become [precious as] the red brimstone and your status will be raised beyond people’s imagination, and

God shall make you heir to His Prophets and Messengers as, which means that all their knowledge, wisdom and blessings, which had disappeared into obscurity and oblivion, will be granted afresh to you, and you will reach the highest level of sainthood, and none after you shall be able to rise higher. 

Your prayers, your fortified resolve, and your blessings will relieve people

of their anguish; the famine-stricken will be granted rain and crops will grow; the affliction and anguish of every low and high, and even the troubles of kings shall be alleviated through your attention and prayers; the Hand of Providence shall be with you, whichever direction it takes you willbe guided in the same way; the Eternal Voice will beckon you to itself, which means that whatever flows from your tongue will be from God and it will be blessed; and you will be made a successor to all the righteous servants of Allah who were granted knowledge before you; a kind of power of creation will be bestowed on you, i.e., your attention and your prayer will exercise control in the world; if you then wish to turn the existing into non-existing, and vice versa, it will  come to pass; extraordinary and miraculous things will take place at  your hand; Divine secrets shall be revealed to you and you shall be  given understanding of subtle and profound matters of Divine knowledge, of which you are considered to be worthy and deserving. [excerpted from Blessings of Prayer, page 26  http://www.alislam.org/library/books/Blessings-of-Prayer.pdf].