خطبات طاہر (جلد 1۔ 1982ء) — Page 402
Khutbat-e-Tahir Vol 1 402 October 1st, 1982 Guarding of New Heaven & our Obligations (Friday Sermon Delivered on 1-10-82 at Gillingham England) After tashahhud, ta'awwudh and recitation of Surah Al-Fatihah Hadur recited: وَلَقَدْ زَيَّنَا السَّمَاء الدُّنْيَا بِمَصَابِيحَ وَجَعَلْنَهَا رُجُوْمًا لِلشَّـ وَاعْتَدْنَا لَهُمْ عَذَابَ السَّعِيرِ (6:Al-Mulk) It is a style of the Holy Qur'an to draw man's attention to the phenomena of nature, but that phenomenon of nature to which the attraction of man is drawn is not an object in itself۔Thereby something else is meant۔In fact, Allah wants to draw the attention of man towards a different spiritual phenomenon and the phenomena of nature is only to work as an analogy, the study of which would give us more (and) greater opportunity to study the hidden phenomena of (the) spiritual world۔The verse which I have just quoted also is an example; an illustration of what I have just said۔Apparently a heaven is described according to the