Guidance for Perceiving Minds — Page 65
65 for their sake. I was a man strutting along in the cloak of youth, resembling an archer, but now you see that the young man has become old. This is a place of contemplation for those who reflect. Can someone like me attribute false sayings to Allah and given a respite until he is sixty years old? There is no covering of the truth, O seekers, but rather it was sealed on their hearts by what they used to earn. The sun has risen, but only the eyes of the pious will be opened, and Allah’s wrath will descend on those who are disobedient. They look at the signs of Allah and how they shine, yet they do not see. They see the afflictions surrounding them, yet they do not care. And when it is said to them that signs have appeared from the earth and the heavens, they say, “We disbelieve in all. ” Are they waiting for Allah’s punishment while the plague has come? Do they not look at the head of the century while nearly a fifth of it has passed, and the earth is filled with oppression and injustice? Do they not know? Have they forgotten what their Lord said, 1 َ َْن� َو ُ ُِظ� � َّف ََحَا ل َُُه ل َا � ْن َِوَِإ َ َّر ِْكْ � � ِذ َا ال � ِن ْ ل َ �ََّز � ْن ُ � ِن ْ َح َ � ْن َا � ْن ِإِ Did Allah break this promise while He saw how people were destroyed by the hands of the priests? They have weak eyes, fee- ble hearts, and aspirations devoted to thinking of their stomachs, like chicks whose sight is sharpened by seeing food. For this rea- son, they incline fully to the earth and keep on telling lies upon lies. Fanaticism has brought them to the position of wild beasts, 1. Verily, We Ourself have sent down this Exhortation, and most surely We will be its Guardian ( S u rah al- H ijr, 15:10). [Publisher]