Malfuzat – Volume I — Page 34
34 Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad In certain places, an utterly shameless life of promiscuity is led. This is due to teachings of the sort just mentioned. If you wish to protect a thing from misuse, it must be safeguarded. However, if one does not watch over a possession-and considers the world to be innocent—then keep in mind that it will surely be ru- ined. The Islamic veil is a truly holy teaching indeed, which through segregation, saves man and woman from stumbling. It has delivered mankind from a grievous and bitter life, on account of which Europe has seen domestic disputes and sui- cides every other day. The fact that noble women drift into lives of promiscuity is the practical outcome of the permission to gaze freely at non-mahram women. Disciplined and Proper Use of the Human Faculties None of the faculties endowed by Allah Almighty have been granted to man so that they may be wasted; rather, their discipline and proper use is the true means by which they are nourished and developed. This is why Islam has not taught that the faculties of virility be slaughtered completely or that the eye be gouged out. Instead, it teaches their proper use and the purification of one's inner self. In this respect, Allah the Exalted states: قَدْ أَفْلَحَ الْمُؤْمِنُوْنَ Surely, success does come to the believers. Then, after illustrating the life of a righteous person, God Almighty draws a con- clusion in the following words: وَأُولَبِكَ هُمُ الْمُفْلِحُونَ And it is they who shall prosper. That is to say, those who tread the path of righteousness; those who believe in the unseen; those who establish or set upright their Prayer when it begins to fall as it were; those who give from that which is bestowed to them by God; those who, irrespective of their own thoughts and fancies, believe in all the divine scriptures sent by God, ultimately attain to the level of certainty. It is these very people who are truly guided and who tread a path that goes on to lead a person to success. Therefore, it is such people who are triumphant and who shall reach their final destination, and who have been delivered from the perils of the journey before al-Mu'minun, 23:2 al-Baqarah, 2:6