Bounties of the Gracious God — Page 87
Teachings for the Community 87 Allah, the One with the Majestic Throne. Surrender yourselves to Allah and enter His protection. O the courageous ones! There is no one who can protect you today but Allah. Do not deceive yourselves by employing earthly means. O men of wisdom! Every matter rests in the hands of Allah. Do not create any distance between yourselves and the Lord of Honour, for estrangement from Him will result in an ignominious death for you. Do not pin your hopes on anyone other than the Gracious God. He will have mercy on you and will Himself create for you such means as will save you from every kind of fire. I see the heavens in fury. So, O servants of Allah! Fear the wrath of your Lord. Seek the bounty of the One who is in heaven and incline not like a lizard to the earth. Seek diligently and strive hard to attain your goal, so that you may be saved from anxiety. In this age you see two kinds of people. There are those who are inclined towards one extreme, and others who are inclined towards the other extreme. They have both con- fused the reality by mixing truth with falsehood. Those who com- mit to one extreme do not believe in miracles, nor do they believe in the revelation that descends from the Lord of the heavens in the form of a sweet discourse, nor do they believe in the Day of Resurrection and Reckoning. They also do not believe in the angels. In fact, they believe in a self-perceived law of nature. They possess nothing of Islam but its name, so I find them similar to atheists and those who consider natural law to be everything. As for those who are inclined to the other extreme, they are the ones who believe in truth and falsehood, but they have to such an extent deviated from the path of moderation that without any tes- timony from Allah, they believe the Son of Mary to be living in the second heaven with his physical body. They followed