Bounties of the Gracious God — Page 27
Account of Subsequent Signs, Miracles & Divine Succour 27 sacred abode like dishonest burglars, and still he ended up like the truthful? Do you consider an imposture to be like soft earth that is rendered even softer by continuous treading, inviting flocks of sand-grouse towards it? Nay. It is rather such a deadly poison that anyone who ate it forthwith died and met his end. Hence a person who fears to stand before his Lord, and has received knowledge from Him, and has been granted great signs, divine light, aptitude and insight, and who has been sent to Allah’s creation so that he leads them towards the paths of guidance; how can he be equal to the one who treads like thieves at night and has completely turned away from the truth, and has divested his heart of the very sense of Allah’s fear, and has worn the garb of imposture, and has commit- ted all his worry and grief to the world that he seeks, and whose objective is not the hereafter nor does he ever raise his eyes to look at it? The two can never be equal. Allah the Gracious, has laid down this distinction as a promise for the truthful in His book, the Holy Quran. Therefore, my enemies do not need to take out spears and get armed or declare me a disbeliever or a sinful person, for all this is wickedness. Verily, death from heaven is about to pounce upon every head. Why then do they not adopt the path of the righteous? They have nothing in their hands but conjec- ture. And before them the Jews were ruined by conjecture. Hence, they rejected both Jesus son of Mary, and Kh a tamul-Anbiy a ’ [the Seal of the Prophets]. Do you reject me following the tradition of these people? Nay, you can recognize the one who is truthful and the one who is a liar through their signs, for every tree is known by its fruit. Have you ever seen a robber who comes to the door of a ruler and publicly commits robbery, and yet he is not appre- hended after this heinous crime? Why then such a person would