Blessings of Khilafat — Page 137
Objects of Human Life 137 have done the hard work of making it? There are those whose job was only to mix its ingredients. Then there were those who extracted its juice from the sugarcane after harvesting the crop. Then there are those who ploughed the fields and watered them. There were those who had mined, refined and made it into iron blades; and those who had cut down the trees to get and shape the wood used in the tillers. In short, if I count all these people, how far will their number go? Then imagine the number of those who made the flour used in it. Similarly, if you count the people who have made all these things, does their number not then reach millions? Having heard this, the nephews confessed that he was right. Therefore, you should also remember it very well that a thing’s significance is not contingent upon its amount and quantity. Rather, it depends upon its eventual outcome and ultimate benefit, and so what I am going to set forth now is very important. No one should underestimate its value and get disappointed like young children who hastily declare it to be a simple thing, even though it does apparently seem to be minor. The fact is that it is indeed a matter of great import. Should you learn it and act upon it, God has promised that He will make such person honoured in both here in this world and in the hereafter. I firmly believe this promise to be true, and declare in the name of God that if your actions are in accordance with the guidance I am about to give, you will certainly be the recipients of the promised blessings.