Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 401
16 September 1907 401 but he persevered with patience. I am always concerned that our Jam a ‘at should not turn out to be like the dry stone of a fruit. Some people write letters and I sense an unpleasant odour from them. At the outset of the letter they write long tales requesting prayers that they become Auliy a ’ull a h [the Friends of Allah] and attain this and that rank, and towards the very end they state that there is a particular lawsuit and do please pray that we are blessed with victory. It clearly indicates that in truth the letter was written to seek success in a case. The pleasure of God was not the objective. This principle should be understood well that God Almighty has made a division having two aspects. Sometimes He wants His will to be accepted and sometimes He accepts man’s desire. It is not the case that things should always occur in accordance to man’s wish. If it is understood that the will of God may always be in accordance with the will of man, then there remains no trial. Who wants to be taken from comfort, luxury, and all kinds of ease into troubles? One who has three or four sons, why would he wish for them to die, and who desires that all his joys should be replaced with sorrows and afflictions? In short, God has set trials for the progress of man or to manifest his ignobility. Many people begin to fabricate all sorts of excuses at the time of a trial and swarms of dark suspicions and doubts perturb them, but the fact is that: 1 ْيِف ْمِهِبْوُلُق ٌضَرَّم١ۙ ُمُهَداَزَف ُهّٰللا اًضَرَم١ۚ َوْمُهَل ٌباَذَع ٌۢمْيِلَا١ۙ۬ اَمِب اْوُناَك َنْوُبِذْكَي۰۰ ْيِف ْمِهِبْوُلُق ٌضَرَّم١ۙ ُمُهَداَزَف ُهّٰللا اًضَرَم١ۚ َوْمُهَل ٌباَذَع ٌۢمْيِلَا١ۙ۬ اَمِب اْوُناَك َنْوُبِذْكَي۰۰ Always remember that God’s support is a grand affair. Even if it is assumed that no son remains, nor any property or wealth, 1. In their hearts was a disease, and Allah has increased their disease to them; and for them is a grievous punishment, because they used to lie ( S u rah al-Baqarah, 2:11 ). [Publisher]