Bounties of the Gracious God — Page 19
The newspaper Al-LiwĀ’ & a Heavenly Sign 19 Gracious God for an Imam. Almost one fifth of this century has already passed and the Muslim Ummah has virtually reached its grave due to its weakness. Negligence has ruined the hearts of the people and most of them have become like dogs with all their attention focused on accumulating cattle, land, properties and wealth. They have forgotten to partake of their share of the pleas- ure of worship and are bent upon the world and its beauty and charm. For them, religion carries only as much importance as myths. Whoever takes a deeper look at their unruly desires and confused thoughts will surely understand that they are a peo- ple upon whom all doors of divine insight have been shut and that their bond of loyalty to God has been broken, except of a few of them who pray to Allah that He may remove from them the veils of negligence. But most of them, with their own hands, have thrown the reality of Divine Unity far away from them, considering faith to be mere lip-service. They curse the servant of God who has come to them at his appointed time and think that they are doing a virtuous deed. Allah has put a seal on their hearts. So, they fail to understand. They think that they are on the right path but they are not. They tell blatant lies. You will find them like the slumbering people who are bent upon rejec- tion. Having been deceived by rituals, they have discarded reali- ties and become neglectful of certainty in faith due to opting for conjecture. They flew at me with objections without having first considered the situation properly. They saw my full moon and tried to split it in half. I have come to them right at the time of need, when the Ummah has become misguided. The signs of my