Malfuzat – Volume III — Page 167
167 what more can I say to advise you; the matter at hand is a delicate one, and the world is oblivious to it. Everything is in the hands of God. The Predominance of Atheism in the Present Age It is my belief that the God we desire to show to the world is hidden from the eyes of the world and the people are unmindful of Him. It is that God Who has shown me a manifestation of His being. Let the one see who possesses a perceiv- ing eye. There are two categories of people: those who believe in God and those who do not; the latter are referred to as atheists. Even those who do believe in God have a vein of atheism in them, for if they believed in God with perfect certainty, why would sin, transgression and promiscuity be on the rise to such an extent? If one were handed a certain amount of arsenic or strychnine, knowing that these are deadly poisons, one would never consume them, even if one was tempted with the greatest of monetary rewards. This is because the individual knows for cer- tain that if they consume the poison, they will die. Why then is it that people are aware that sin is displeasing to God Almighty, yet they still go ahead and drink this cup of poison? People lie, they commit fornication, they have no hesitation in causing grief to others; for a measly twelve annas or one rupee worth of jewel- lery, people will murder innocent children. Such audacity, mischief and temerity is not possible if one possesses true knowledge and full certainty. Such actions demonstrate that people do not realise at all that this poison of sin is a far more lethal poison than arsenic and strychnine. If such people believed that God exists, and if they knew that sin incurs divine displeasure and severe punishment, they would show an aversion to sin and abandon evil. However, since a life of sin is becoming all the more acceptable, and since people are growing more and more enamoured of wrongdoing, sin and transgression, instead of being disgusted by it, I hold, and this is the truth, that in today’s age, atheism has pervaded the world. The only difference is that while one group verbally proclaims that God exists even though they do not really believe in Him, the other group outright rejects His existence explicitly. In reality, both groups are no different to one another. p. 151