Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 64
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 7 64 This is the very period which is the period of accountability, and these are the very days of doing something to attain an aus- picious end. However, it is surrounded by such calamities that if significant efforts are not made, this period will take a per- son to Hell and make him miserable. Yes, indeed, if this time is lived well, remaining alert and fully cautious, then by the grace and beneficence of Allah the Exalted, there is hope that the end will be good. Since the early age is the age of ignorance and negligence, Allah the Exalted will not call a person to account for that, as He Himself has said: 1 اَل ُفِّلَكُي ُهّٰللا اًسْفَن اَّلِا اَهَعْسُو اَل ُفِّلَكُي ُهّٰللا اًسْفَن اَّلِا اَهَعْسُو And in the last days, though there will be indolence and lazi- ness due to old age, the angels will write in his deeds those very feelings and thoughts of his youth. If, in his youth, he did virtuous deeds diligently, feared God Almighty, obeyed His commandments, and safeguarded himself against prohibitions, then in old age, even if there is some laziness in performing these actions, God Almighty would give him the same reward considering him to be disabled. 2 Everyone feels what a time of absent-mindedness it is upon 1. Allah burdens not any soul beyond its capacity ( S u rah al-Baqarah, 2:287). [Publisher] 2. From al-Badr: ‘If he has spent this time in the service of God, setting his self aright and in obedience to God, then he will be rewarded with this fruit in his old age that, while he will lack the ability to do any kind of worship, and be afflicted with fatigue and indolence, the angels will keep writing the same Prayer, Fasting, Tahajjud, etc. , in his book of deeds, which he used to perform in the days of his youth. And this is the grace of God that His Holy Being, seeing His servant’s disability, even though he does not perform those deeds, the same deeds continue to be recorded in his name’ ( Al-Badr, vol. 4, no. 1, p. 10, dated 1 January 1905).