Lecture Sialkot — Page 5
L ECTURE S IALKOT 5 mistake. Human beings are finite while God is Infinite, and with His infinite power He can bring into exis- tence other beings. This is what Divine Power is! God does not require matter for any of His attributes. If He did, He would not be God. There is nothing that can stop Him from doing whatever He wills. If, for in- stance, He willed to create the heaven and earth all in a moment, would He not be able to do so? Those among the Hindus who were learned and blessed with spiritual- ity and were not slaves to dry logic, never held the belief which Aryas today hold about Parmeshwar. This doctrine is the result of a complete lack of spirituality. Thus these religions came to suffer from such ills, some of which are unspeakable and even repugnant to the purity of the human self. All these symptoms were conditions precedent to Islam. A reasonable person would admit that sometime before the advent of Islam all faiths had become corrupted and had lost spirituality. Thus, our Holy Prophet sa was the Greatest Reformer who brought the lost truth back into the world. No Prophet shares with our Holy Prophet sa the distinction that he found the entire world steeped in darkness and he turned its darkness into light; nor did he die until the entire people among whom he appeared had shed the garb of Shirk 3 and put on the 3 Shirk: associating partners with God. [Publishers]