Malfuzat – Volume I — Page 71
Malfuzat - Volume I 71 in my book Barahin-e-Ahmadiyyah as well, that 60 million books against Islam have been written and compiled, and printed already. It is strange that the Mus- lim population in India is 60 million and the number of books written against Islam are also equivalent in number. If we disregard the number of books that have been added to this figure, even still our opponents have handed one book to each and every Muslim in India. If the jealousy of Allah the Exalted had not surged forth and were it not for His true promise (Most surely We will safeguard the Quran) know for certain that today Islam would have been wiped off the face of the earth and all traces of it would have been effaced. But no, this can never happen. The hidden hand of God is protecting it. What disappoints and pains me is that the Muslims do not care for Islam even to the extent that one cares for their marital relations. I have often had the opportunity to read that even Christian women, on death, bequeath hundreds of thousands of rupees for the propagation and spread of the Christian faith. And as far as devoting their lives for the dissemination of Christianity is concerned, this is something we ob- serve daily. Thousands of lady-missionaries go from home to home and street to street, and strip the people of their faith in any way possible. I have yet to see a single Muslim who has bequeathed even 50,000 rupees on their deathbed for the propagation of Islam. In contrast, at marriages and for worldly customs, they spend extravagantly and even incur debt to squander their wealth relentlessly. But when it comes to Islam, they have nothing. Alas! What a pity! Could the state of the Muslims be any more deplorable? One Virtue Begets Another The fact of the matter is that evil actions result in further evil actions. The natural law of God Almighty in Islam is that one righteous act gives birth to another. I remember once reading about an old fire-worshipper of ninety years of age in Tadhkira-tul-Awliya. It so happened that in a period of extended showers, the man was feeding seeds to the birds on the roof of his house. A noble man approached him and said: 'Old man, what are you doing?' He responded: 'Brother, the rain has been falling incessantly for six or seven days now and so I am feeding the birds some grain. ' 'You do so in vain,' said the noble man, You are a disbeliever, what reward can you attain for such action?' The old man responded, 'I will surely receive my reward. ' The noble man relates that he went for Hajj and saw the same al-Hijr, 15:10 1