Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 92
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 7 92 entertain such ideas that one can defraud and deceive others to the extent of sesame seeds that will stick to one’s hand if dipped in a pot of syrup and then placed upon sesame seeds. Such absurd and fanciful ideas of theirs have done great harm and have well-nigh transformed them into wild and sav- age beasts, but I advise you repeatedly that you should never ever limit the scope of your compassion. And follow the teach- ing that Allah the Exalted has given regarding compassion; namely: 1 َّنِا َهّٰللا ُرُمْاَي ِلْدَعْلاِب َو ِناَسْحِاْلا َو ِئٓاَتْيِا يِذ ىٰبْرُقْلا َّنِا َهّٰللا ُرُمْاَي ِلْدَعْلاِب َو ِناَسْحِاْلا َو ِئٓاَتْيِا يِذ ىٰبْرُقْلا Meaning that, first of all, in doing good, you should observe justice. Whoever does good to you, do good to him. And then the second level is that you treat him even more kindly than that. This is i h s a n [benevolence]. Although this level of i h s a n is higher than justice and is a great virtue, sometimes it is likely that the one who has being benevolent reminds others of the benevolent deeds he has done. But there is a level above all of these, that a person does good deeds in such a way that it adopts the quality of personal love, in which there is no display, just like a mother who nurtures her child. She is not desirous of get- ting any reward for providing this nourishment. On the con- trary, it is all due to a natural zeal that she sacrifices all her com- forts for the child’s sake, to the extent that even if a king orders the mother not to breastfeed her child and tells her that even if the child dies due to this, there will be no punishment, will the mother be happy to hear such an order? And will she comply? Certainly not. Instead, she will curse such a king in her heart as to why he gave such an order. Therefore, good deeds should be 1. S u rah an-Na h l, 16:91 [Publisher]