The Light of the Holy Qur'an — Page 30
T HE L IGHT OF T HE HOLY Q U R’AN—NUM BE R ON E T HE L IGHT OF T HE HOLY Q U R’AN—NUM BE R ON E 30 its soft, green, fresh leaves will dry up and drop off in a matter of days and when smitten by aridity, all of its limbs will begin to fall off slowly like those of lepers. Why would all these calamities befall it? Because the water, upon which its life depended, did not irrigate it. It is in reference to this very issue that Allah, the Lord of Glory, says: 1 ًةَمِلَك ًةَبِّيَط ٍةَرَجَشَك ٍةَبِّيَط Meaning that, a good word is like a good tree. Just as a fine and noble tree cannot flourish without water, similarly the pure words uttered from the lips of a righteous person cannot manifest their full verdure, nor can they develop and grow, until that pure Spring flows through its roots, irrigating them from the stream of istighf a r. Hence, man’s spiritual life rests upon istighf a r, coursing through whose channel, the True Spring reaches the roots of humanity and saves them from withering away and dying. Any religion that does not express this philosophy is in no way from God Almighty. And the person who has turned away from this Spring—despite being called a prophet, a messenger, a truthful or a righteous one—is not at all from God Almighty. Rather, he has come from Shai ta n [Satan] instead of God Almighty. For, the root word shai t [from which Shai ta n is derived] means ‘dying’; therefore, the one who has not sought to draw this True Spring towards himself in order to irrigate his spiritual garden and has failed to fill the stream of istighf a r to the brim from this Spring is 1. S u rah Ibr a h i m, 14:25 [Publisher]