Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 441
25 September 1907 441 Deliberations may be carried out a thousand times but, as I had said yesterday, water is yet still contaminated with urine. Therefore, this kind of education is insufficient for our pro- gress. Only sincerity, truthfulness, and righteousness can pro- vide progress to our Jam a ‘at. There were more than a hundred thousand Companions ra of the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. I believe that none of them had a faith that was adulterated. Not a single one of them was such that they were partially for the faith and partially for the world, but all of them were ready to give their lives in the way of God as He says: 1 ْمُهْنِمَف ْنَّم ىٰضَق ٗهَبْحَن َوْمُهْنِم ْنَّم ُرِظَتْنَّي ْمُهْنِمَف ْنَّم ىٰضَق ٗهَبْحَن َوْمُهْنِم ْنَّم ُرِظَتْنَّي Who is a Hypocrite Those who are adulterated, God has named them hypocrites. The ones who have taken the Pledge of Allegiance should not be elated as hypocrites are those who adulterated [their faith] to an extent. The hypocrites that existed in the time of the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, if they were present today, they would be considered great sages and believ- ers as when evil increases greatly then there is immense value for even a small virtue. The people who have been called hyp- ocrites, they actually were hypocrites when compared to the great Companions ra. Keep in mind that the one who retains some part of Satan with God is a hypocrite. 1. There are some of them who have fulfilled their vow, and some who still wait ( S u rah al-A h z a b, 33:24). [Publisher]