Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 223
27 MAY 1905 27 MAY 1905 A Glorious Revelation عَبْدُ الْقَادِرِ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ. أَرَى رِضْوَانَهُ اللَّهُ أَكْبَرُ . 'Abdul-Qādir, may Allah be pleased with him. I see His pleasure. Allah is the Greatest. Regarding the first revelation, the Promised Messiahas said: God is about to manifest some of His powers for me. This is why He named me 'Abdul-Qādir. The word رضوان ]ridwan[ implies that God will manifest an act on earth that will prove and enlighten the world that He is pleased with me. Even in the world, when a king is pleased with someone, there is an expres- sion of this through actions as well. This means that 'I am see- ing actions indicating His pleasure. ' The pleasure of Allah the Exalted is very dear to a believer. It has been mentioned in a hadith that when the believers are admitted into Paradise, they will be told to ask for whatever they desire. They will submit, 'O Lord! Be pleased with us. The answer will be, 'If I had not been pleased, then why would I have admitted you into Paradise?'1,2 223 1. Badr, vol. 1, no. 8, p. 2, dated 25 May 1905 2. See also: Şahih al-Bukhārī, Kitāb al-Riqaq, Bāb Şifat al-Jannah wa al-Nār, Hadith 6549; Tanbih al-Ghāfilīn, lil Imām Abī al-Laith as-Samarqandī, p. 53, Hadith 65, Maktabat al-Imān. [Publisher]