The Holy War — Page 216
216 considered the idea of God Almighty being the Cause of all causes to be a weak and flawed concept. Thus, these words of the Holy Quran that everything comes into being by My very command were used to establish the absolute Unity of God. To conclude from such verses that man is compelled is تفسیر القول بما ال یرضا بہ قائلہ [to explain a statement with which the reciter is not satisfied]. And by observing God Almighty’s law of nature, it is also proven that that freedom and lack of compulsion which Deputy [Abdullah Atham] sahib is proclaiming is not found in the world; that in fact, many kinds of constraints and compulsions are evident and pal- pable. For example, there are some whose memories are not so good and perforce cannot remember things beyond the capacity of their weak memory; there are others whose understanding is poor, and they perforce cannot deduce the right conclusion. Some have very small heads like those who are called doulay sh a h ka ch u h a 1 and they are unable to understand anything. Further ahead in limitations are some insane people, and man’s own powers have been kept within certain limits beyond which he cannot make any use of them. This is also a type of constraint and coercion. Then Deputy sahib states that it is a belief in Islam that goodness and evil both come from Allah, the Exalted. It is very sad how Deputy sahib has deviated from the correct meanings. Let it be clear that this does not mean that God Almighty creates evil as evil because Allah, the Exalted, clearly states: 2 َّنِا ْيِداَبِع َسْيَل َكَل ْمِهْيَلَع ٌنٰطْلُس Meaning that O Satan, who causes evil to spread, thou shalt have no power over My servants. 1. Persons suffering from microcephaly are exploited as beggars at the shrine of Shah Daulah in Gujrat City, Punjab and other places in Pakistan. [Publisher] 2. S u rah al- H ijr, 15:43 [Publisher]