Malfuzat - Volume IV — Page 35
35 Malfuzat – Volume IV One is taught to give precedence to God Almighty over all else. These are the objectives that one must seek to achieve. The ignorant seek to measure God by the gauge of their own mind and thoughts, they seek, by their own devices, to develop a relationship with Him, but this is the very thing that they cannot do. So my advice is that you ought to keep away from such notions. You ought to fol - low the way that was presented to the world by the Messenger of God Almighty, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and what he demonstrated through his own practical example as a pathway by which one can attain success and pros - perity in the hereafter; one should follow what he taught the companions. Then, from time to time various chosen ones of God showed the same practice through their actions by continuing the Sunnah of the Holy Prophet sas , and today, God has liked the same practice. Now if the true objective of God Almighty was for us to adopt the self-invented concept mentioned earlier, then even today when he has established a divine community to revive those truths and verities that are now lost, he would have taught this strange practice and this would have been the highest objective of my teachings as well. However, you can observe that God has not given any such teaching; in fact, He says that man should come to Him with a sound heart (qalb-e-saleem). He loves those who do good (muhsinun) and those who are righteous (muttaqun). He is the Friend and Protector of such peo - ple. Is it written anywhere in the whole of the Quran that God loves those whose hearts are set in motion? You must know for certain that these are merely baseless notions, they are games which have no relation whatsoever with the reformation of one’s soul or with spiritual matters. In fact, such games only move a person fur - ther and further away from God and prove to be harmful to a person in terms of their actions. So adopt righteousness, honour the practice of the Holy Prophet sas and demonstrate with unwavering dedication that you follow his path, for this is the true pride of the teaching of the Holy Quran. ” The Case of the Sufis Question: Then where did the Sufis go wrong? Answer: Leave them to God. We do not know what they understood and how they reached their conclusions.