Bounties of the Gracious God — Page 14
14 had assembled on the sea keeping in view the significance of adopting the material means? If you have read anything like this in the Holy Quran, you ought to present the evidence to me and avoid wandering in the valley of selfishness and prejudice. This is what I have learnt from the Book of Allah. I do not know where you are heading and from where you have made your learning. I do not find or see in the scriptures of Allah anything of what you say. Are you astounded by the signs of Allah even though He has full power over all things? Do you not see that the fire of the epidemic is raging and people are dying like camels one row after the other and the plague is hunting the people down sparing neither men nor women? So, if I were a liar, I would have been overwhelmed by the fear of retribution. Indeed, I would never have dared to act in this manner at a time when masses are being wiped out and creatures are perishing. If, merely to show off a miracle, I were to resort to falsehood and deception, I would not have dared to utter any such word at a time when this calamity is wreaking havoc. Surely, Allah’s wrath is so severe that even the nerves of the angels tremble due to it, and no liar has the temer- ity to forge lies against the Majestic Almighty at a time when fire is raining down from heaven and people are swiftly dying right where they are, and while a man who is living in the evening joins the dead by the time the day breaks. Can reason accept that at such a time when death is so rampant, someone would dare to stand up like a liar and impute falsehood to the Omnipotent God who knows and sees? Did the wrath not begin before our very eyes and spread across habitations affecting the people of every nation? And, it was during these very days that I was