How to be Free from Sin — Page 17
17 miracles of the saint are related without a shred of evi- dence. Considering this to be the essence of Islam, the people of these sects view all other Muslims as misguided. While these people have gone to one extreme, there are others who have gone to the other, crossing all the limits in their denial of spiritual blessings. Let alone sainthood, they do not even have the slightest regard for Prophethood. They reject miracles, deride them and mock at them, and consider revelation to be a product of the re- cipient’s own mind, resulting from an inherent genius. They consider prophecies, that are not a result of a per- son’s own foresight and belong purely to the realm of the unseen, as impossible. They believe that no revelation de- scends from God, there is no truth in miracles or prophecies, the graves of the dead are mere mounds of earth bearing no relationship with the souls, the day of resurrection is a myth which dates back to the age of igno- rance, and that worrying about the Hereafter is sheer insanity. They believe that all wisdom lies in the acquisi- tion of material gains and following and emulating those who are relentless in their pursuit of the world. These are the extreme positions which the Muslims hold vis-à-vis Prophethood and Resurrection. Even in their day to day conduct we find the Muslims at one extreme of the spectrum or the other. They lack any sense of moderation in words, actions, morals, marriage, divorce, parsimony, wastefulness, anger, mercy, revenge, or forgiveness. They are in a strange quandary; their igno- rance has no limits and their transgression knows no