The Heavenly Decree — Page 44
44 A sm a n i Fai s lah That is, Allah will never make way for the disbelievers to prevail against the believers. Look, Allah the Exalted has given the glad tidings of victory to the believers at the time of contest, and it is self-evident that God helps and supports the believers and not disbelievers. So, how can an unworthy one be blessed with special signs of faith in opposition to a believer, when Allah holds him for an enemy and knows him to be an impostor? How can it be that those who are Allah’s true friends, recipients of true revelations, perfect believers and Shaikhul Kul , are denied the signs of faith in a contest and disgracefully exposed and Allah purposefully sullies their honour, while the one who is accursed by heaven and, according to Bat a law i Sahib, is like dogs and a kafir and Dajj a l , and, according to Mi yan Nadh i r H usain, entirely shorn of faith, an atheist and the lowest of all creatures, is graced with the signs of faith and God awards him victory and success in the contest instead? Tell me truthfully, dear readers, is heavenly and spiritual succour meant for the believers or the non-believers? In the whole of this discourse, I have established that a contest is an absolute must for distinguishing the truth from falsehood, so that: 23 23 ‘So that the face of every liar is blackened. ’ [Translator]