Malfuzat - Volume IV — Page 193
193 Malfuzat – Volume IV strength conferred upon a human being is evil in its own right; rather, adopting an extreme and ill use makes it an evil action, whereas proper and balanced use makes the same action a good moral. It is this very principle that other nations have failed to understand, while the Quran has explained it. In view of this prin - ciple, the Holy Quran states: 1 َْنَ ْي ِ َم ِ ُل ٰ ْلُظ ُ ا ٍب ِ ْح ُ ُي َا ْل َِّٗنَٗه ا ِ ُهلل ا ْي َ ٰل َ ِع ُٗٗہ َر َْجْ ا َََحَ َف ُل ْ ِص َ ا َوَ َا ِف َ ِع ْ ُن َفََمَ َا ِه ُِْثُْل َم ٌ ِة َِئَ ْي ََس ٍ ِة َِئَ ْي َسَ ُٓٔوُا َّز َ ْج Meaning, the punishment of an injury is an injury the like thereof, except for the one who forgives, when forgiveness brings about reformation. The Quran has invariably spoken of forgiveness, but not so that a wicked person may increase in their evil as a result of that forgiveness, or so that the laws and system governing civil or political affairs are disturbed; rather, in such circumstances, punishment is necessary. Forgiveness has only been encouraged in the case that it brings about reformation. Now tell me, is this not a teaching that completes and perfects human morals or is this purpose achieved by turning the other cheek and being slapped? Even the law of nature proclaims its support of the Islamic teaching just mentioned; and practically as well, this is the only teaching that is logical. If it is the Gospel that is to be followed, then today all of the courts should be shut down, and all police and security services should be suspended for just two days and then you will see the oceans of blood that begin to flow by accepting the Gospel. If the teaching of the Gospel had not been deficient and incomplete, then why were kings required to make new laws? The Arya Doctrine Therefore, this is the effect of the Gospel teaching on the rights owed to human - ity. Now, I would also like to tell you what Dayanand has presented in light of these two principles as being the essence of the Vedas. As far as the rights due to Allah are concerned, the injustice he has committed is that he believes that God is not the Creator of anything. On the contrary, he believes that the particles and souls of this universe are eternal just like God Himself and He is only a joiner, which we would call a mu’allif in Arabic. Now what could be a greater destruc - tion of the rights owed to Allah than to erase all of His attributes and reject His magnificent attribute of creation? When God is nothing more than a joiner, then I do not understand how the creation of this world would be affected even if at 1 ash-Shura , 42:41 p. 459