The Green Announcement — Page 22
22 all people. Whether one is a believer or a disbeliever, pi- ous or impious, one will possess these abilities more or less equally. This is their stated point of view and it clearly betrays the weakness of their intellect, their super- ficial thinking and their lack of knowledge. But when we go on to analyze their condition with the aid of true in- sight, we find that negligence and worldliness has completely eroded their ability to understand the matters of faith. Like lepers whose limbs begin to rot in the ad- vanced stage of the disease, their worldliness has caused their spiritual faculties to fall into decay. They do not at all reflect upon religious truths and verities and are given to mockery and ridicule, doubt and suspicion. They are indeed so cut off from the truth, and so averse to seeking true knowledge, that they never once ask themselves why they have come into this world and what is the purpose of their existence. They indulge, night and day, in the pursuit of material things and have lost all consciousness of how far they have strayed from the truth. Even more unfortu- nate is the fact that they take their own fatal illness for health, and look down upon those who are blessed with true well-being. They do not value the excellences of Sainthood and of nearness to God, and have given in to hopelessness and despondency. Should they continue in this state, they are in serious danger of losing their faith even in Prophethood. The fact that some ulema have reached this appalling state and consider these spiritual blessings to be impossible or doubtful is not because they have any personal experience