Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 860
860 AL-ISTIFTA' SUPPLEMENT TO HAQIQATUL-WAḤI These are the people who do not believe that Allah will speak to anyone after our Master, the Chosen Prophets. They say that divine converse has been sealed after the Best of Mankind [the Holy Prophet]. It is as if God has lost His ability to speak in this age and is able to hear only; perhaps He may also lose the ability to hear in the future. Thus, when He is [supposedly] unable to speak and hear the prayers offered to Him, then one can no longer rely on the integrity of His other attributes either. In other words, all His attributes will become unreliable. Hence, anyone who denies the eternal nature of even one single attribute of God Almighty denies all His attributes and inclines towards atheism. O people of wisdom! What would you say about such a person? Do you believe him to be a Muslim or has he fallen from the tower of the Faith? Do you believe that Islam has nothing except a handful of stories and that it is devoid of tangible Signs? Has our Lord turned His blessed countenance away from us after the demise of the Holy Prophets, the Best of Mankind? If so, what is the proof of the truth of this religion? Has God forgotten about the reward that He had promised in Sūrah al-Fatihah; that is, He would make the people of this ummah like the Prophets of the earlier ummahs? Has not the Holy Quran declared us the Best of Ummahs? What has then contrary to the Furqan-made us the worst of ummahs? Does reason permit that, despite our best efforts to obtain the cogni- zance of Allah, we will fail to tread upon the ways that lead to Him; and that, in spite of dying for the gentle wind of mercy, we will not be granted its breeze? Is this the limit of perfection for this ummah? Whilst the sun of this world is about to set, know that this belief is false not only from the standpoint of perfect wisdom, but it is also false on the basis of an in-depth look at the holy Scriptures. Is there any death worse than a death of ignorance? What blindness is more painful than the prevention from beholding the countenance of Allah, the Great Bestower? If this ummah had been like the dumb and deaf, the lovers would have died on account of this grief. Those