Malfuzat - Volume IV — Page 215
215 Malfuzat – Volume IV fact, I would even say that these cruel and bloodthirsty people, as if, murder the truth. Since they do not possess the blessings and shining fruits of the truth, those who hear them speak begin to think that these are false and imaginary notions and then show no interest in them at all; so in this way, the people I have just described deprive others as well. Therefore, it is imperative to remember that a person who claims that they seek the reformation and betterment of the world cannot give any benefit to anyone until they possess both the truth and spiritual magnetism. Furthermore, those who do not listen to their words carefully cannot benefit from such people who do possess the aforementioned qualities. Spiritual Night and Day As per the law of nature instituted by God Almighty, day follows the night, and the night comes after day. There is no change in this law of nature. In the same manner, various eras constantly come and go in this world also where sometimes it is night in the spiritual sense, and sometimes a new day appears with the dawn of the sun. Therefore, the last thousand years that have passed were a dark night, in the spiritual sense, which the Noble Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, named the Era of the Misguided. This is equal to one day of God Almighty, as it is stated in the Holy Quran: 1 َْنَ َو ُ ْد َُعُ َّت َا َم ِ َم ٍ ِة َ ْن ََس ِ ُف َْلْ ا َـ ْك ََِك َب َ ُر َ ْد ِعِْنْ ًا َم َْوْ ُي َ َن ِ ا Verily, a day with thy Lord is as a thousand years of your reckoning. In that period of one thousand years, a terrible cloak of darkness had enveloped the world. It was a time in which elaborate schemes, conspiracies and machina - tions were employed to throw foul dirt upon the honour of our Noble Messenger, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. All sorts of polytheism and innova - tions in the Faith became rampant among those very same people—who called themselves Muslims—but in relation to this group of people the Noble Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, said: ْ ُم ُِمِْنُْھ ُ َت ْ ُّس َِْیْ َوََل � ْن ِمِ َا ُْوْ ُّس َلَْیْ Meaning, neither are they from me, nor am I from them. Therefore, as God Almighty has stated, this was a night of a thousand years, which has passed. Now 1 al-Hajj , 22:48 p. 482