The Essence of Islam – Volume III — Page 356
356. Essence of Islam-III. Let a select group of the learned religious scholars of. Nadwah come to Qādiān and demand proofs of miracles and definitive arguments based on the Holy Qur'ān and. Hadith which support my claim. Then, if I fail to furnish full proof according to the practice of the Prophets (peace be upon them), I will allow all my books to be burnt. . Only a godly one would go to such lengths. Why would the Nadwah take so much trouble? They care the least about the hereafter, so why should they fear God? Yet each of the clerics of Nadwah should remember that he will not remain in this world forever. Death is beckoning. . God observes from heaven that the sport and play with which they occupy themselves, and which they call religion, has nothing to do with faith. They are content with the shell and are unaware of the kernel. This is not the service of Islām but is its enmity. Alas! If they had been blessed with eyesight they would have realized that the world has been guilty of a grave sin in rejecting God's. Messiah; but this realization would only come after death. [Tuḥfat-un-Nadwah, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 19, p. 101]. The nature of converse with the Divine is that God Almighty bestows the honour of such a dialogue upon one who is wholly devoted to the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) as He granted to earlier. Prophets. In this dialogue, the Kalimullāh [the servant who is blessed with converse with God] talks to Him like one man to another. He puts a question to God, Who responds to him; even though such question and answer may extend to fifty or more exchanges. Through such dialogue, God Almighty bestows three types of bounties upon His perfect servant: 1. Most of his supplications are granted and he is