Bounties of the Gracious God — Page 46
46 And what do you have to offer to a seeker of guidance but a weak tradition. So, this is the pain that has taken away my sleep and wasted away my bones and wounded me with daggers, as if it were. Allah, therefore, decided to strengthen what He had created and to cause faith and its truth to prevail. It is not divine practice to be content with little and to be satisfied with a handful of water. On the other hand, the water that you possess is just like moisture that cannot quench thirst. Hence, my Lord sent me to lead you to abundant flowing water. What is wrong with you that you can- not differentiate between friend and foe? Do you not see how the water of Islam has disappeared into the ground and its brilliance has been lost and its fountain has dried up before its garden could flourish and it has been condemned to perish and to disintegrate? Hence, power comes from Allah alone, so we supplicate before Him and wait for the help that He grants to the oppressed. O the ones blessed with youth! You see the plight of this age, yet still you do not see. This is a calamity from among the calamities that have befallen the faith of the Gracious God. I know not why these peo- ple treat me as someone who wears the garb of impudence and has cast off the cloak of truth. Have I come to them at the wrong time or have I presented to them something contrary to the verses of the Quran or have I killed someone from among their forefathers causing them to become enraged over the shedding of that blood? Allah has shown them signs for my sake and testified in my favour with manifest arguments. And one of these signs that came from the Lord of Mankind is the calamity that has come in the form of the plague. And I had foretold about it at a time when there was no trace of it in this country. One of the aforesaid signs is the death