Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 214
214 HAQIQATUL-WAḤI-THE PHILOSOPHY OF DIVINE REVELATION ‘Allah', as God Almighty Himself has done and not—like the Jews— create a different interpretation. Moreover, it has always been the way of the Word of God Almighty and the practice of His Messengers, that they seek to guide every rebel- lious and hardened disbeliever by instructing him that if he believes in God in the correct and sincere manner, and loves Him, and accepts Him as One without any partner, he will then, surely, attain salvation. The purpose of this discourse is that if they would believe in God fully, they would be enabled by God to accept Islam. The Holy Quran, which these people do not study, clearly affirms that he who truly believes in God is led to belief in His Messenger, and his bosom is opened for accepting Islam. Therefore, my own practice is also that when an Āryah, or a Brahmu, or a Christian, or a Jew, or a Sikh, or any other non-Muslim persists in erroneous reasoning and does not stop it by any means, I tell him, at the end, that his arguments will not benefit him in any way but that if he believes in God with complete sincerity, He will grant him salvation on this account. But by this statement I do not mean that salvation can be achieved without following the Holy Prophets; what I mean is that if a person believes in God with complete sincerity, God will grant him the ability, and will open his heart, to believe in His Messenger. Similarly, my own experience bears out that one good leads to another good and one righteous deed enables one to perform another righteous deed. A wonderful episode is related in Tadhkiratul-Auliya' ['Memoirs of the Saints']. An esteemed saint narrates: Once it so happened that it continued to rain heavily for sev- eral days. When it stopped, I happened to go to the roof of my house. My neighbour, who was an old man, and a fire-wor- shipper, was at that time scattering lots of grains on the roof of his house. I asked him why he did that. He replied, 'The birds are starved for a few days on account of the rain. I took pity on them and am throwing them these grains so that I may be