Bounties of the Gracious God — Page 13
The newspaper Al-LiwĀ’ & a Heavenly Sign 13 up for them and in all parts of the world shows signs for them and guides the one who seeks guidance. For their sake He fights their enemy and creates for them the means that He does not create for others. He commands His angels to serve them conveying their goodness. Then He helps His servant in such ways as the servant might never have imagined. Do you reproach me for abandoning material means, whereas I have been commanded to do this by the Lord of all the lords? Therefore, I fail to understand on what grounds you reproach me. What is wrong with you that despite having eyes, you choose to be blind? I do not forbid people to get inoculated against the plague. The benefit of abandoning the inoculation will only be for those who have followed me with a pure heart and did good works for the sake of the Merciful Lord and cast off their self like a snake sloughs its skin off. They distanced themselves from every sin and sinner. They are the ones who are saved from His blaz- ing fire. Have you forgotten the miracles of the Divine Will which were demonstrated through the creation of the Messiah [ Jesus], the protection of Moses, and the birth of John? Or do you think our Lord is not the same as He was in earlier times? Do you believe that Moses put himself and his people in peril while crossing the sea without a boat? In fact, you have no option but to believe that Moses neither boarded a ship [to cross the sea], nor did he take refuge on a bridge adopting the convention- ally known material means. Therefore, he left the place of safety and [apparently] deviated from divine practices. So, O the one who has drawn knives at me! You ought to reflect! Is this story (of Moses) not objectionable in light of the objection you have raised against me? How many boats do you know of that Moses