Malfuzat – Volume I — Page 233
Malfuzat - Volume I مَنْ ذَا الَّذِي يُقْرِضُ اللَّهَ قَرْضًا حَسَنًا 233 Who is it that will lend Allah a goodly loan Then, in commentary of this verse Allah Almighty states the following: فَمَنْ يَعْمَلْ مِثْقَالَ ذَرَّةٍ خَيْرٌ ايَّرَهُ Then whoso does an atom's weight of good will see it. The Reason for the Decline of the Christians The ignorant Christians have deified a weak and humble man and have placed the burden of their sins and vices on his shoulders. They have admitted that he was accursed. Even though the Christians have nothing on their hands but curse, they raise allegations against others. As they have rejected the holy Law of God Almighty on account of the Atonement, they no longer enjoy the pleasure and joy that is present in good deeds. Since they have labelled all the pious people of God Almighty as thieves and robbers, they have been smitten with curse. There- fore, one must never forget that to reject and deny the virtuous people of God Almighty destroys an individual and is a lethal poison for one's spiritual powers and faculties. One who thinks ill of the truthful and disrespects them is deprived of divine verities and insights. The curse that has fallen upon the Christians is that they have deemed all those who are virtuous to be sinful. Therefore, the subtle insight in this verse is that the rains follows a fixed system and people are able to determine when the rainy days draw near. For example, the people know that it rains from mid-December to mid-February and also from mid-July to mid-September. Then, another secret is that it never rains needlessly. In fact, rainfall always occurs at a time that is best suited for it. The phenom- enon of spiritual rain also functions in the same manner and this is a discussion which relates to a conceptual matter. Hence, in this context, God Almighty has put forth physically apparent phenomena to serve as a witness and has employed the use of an oath to take the place of a witness. Furthermore, God Almighty has used this word in exactly the same manner that He uses the word 'loan, as I have just mentioned. al-Baqarah, 2:246 az-Zilzal, 99:8