The Essence of Islam – Volume IV — Page 304
304. Essence of Islam-IV rion is to be found. Do I need people merely to profess with their tongues that they are with me, so that I should have a large Jama'at for show? I tell you truly that if all people were to abandon me, and not one of them was to remain with me, my God would create another people for me who will be better than them in their sincerity and loyalty. It is a heavenly attraction that is drawing good-hearted people towards me, and no one can obstruct this heavenly attraction. Some people rely more upon their own cunning and deceit than upon God. Perhaps, in their hearts, they secretly entertain the notion that all Prophethood and Messengership is pretence and it is only by chance that such people acquire fame and acceptance. There cannot be a concept more corrupt. He who entertains it has no faith in God, without Whose determination not a leaf falls. Accursed are such hearts and accursed are such dispositions. God will destroy them in humiliation, for they are the enemies of God's designs. Such people are in fact atheists and possess impure hearts. . They live a cursed life and after death they can look forward to nothing but the fire of hell. [Majmu'ah Ishtihārāt, vol. 3, pp. 503-505]. I myself have full experience in this regard, and it is purely by the grace and beneficence of God Almighty that I have enjoyed this delight and pleasure. My only desire is that I should devote my life in His path, should die in His path and be revived again and again to serve Him. Each time my eagerness and delight would be multiplied.