Bounties of the Gracious God — Page 55
Details of My Statement in Brief 55 the days of Allah’s reckoning. O sensible ones! Fear Allah as this is not the time of bearing arms and waging war; rather, my Lord has commanded me, ‘O people of this Ummah! Arm yourselves with repentance and chastity, for all divine help depends on this preparation. The world has become accursed and worthy of divine wrath due to rampant sinfulness, forsaking Allah and inclining towards immoralities. This is not the time to take up swords and spears; instead this is the time for cleansing the soul and turning ones reigns towards Allah, for just as corruption has entered the hearts of the enemies of this faith, so has it seeped without excep- tion into the hearts of all Muslims. Hence, these evil ones will not be able to conquer other evil ones through Jihad. They can do so only by adopting chastity and piety. Allah will not help Muslim sovereigns while they are weak in faith and slothful, rather He will be utterly angry with them and prefer the disbelievers over such Muslims. This will happen because they have forgotten the lim- its set by Allah and become unmindful of the commandments of their Lord and because they are not righteous. They believe in one part of the Quran and reject the other. They do not seek to prop- agate the truth and live like hypocrites. Indeed, this is the state of the people of this age. On top of it all, they reject the one who has been raised by the Gracious God and call him an imposter. Do they wonder that a Warner has come to them from among themselves at a time when people have lost the true essence of faith? Do they say that I have fabricated a lie, even though they have witnessed my signs and then cast them behind the veils of forgetfulness? O people! Just tell me, if it turns out that I am from Allah, and you end up reject- ing me, then can there be a greater loss? Do you want me to stop