Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 249
22 July 1905 249 subject to the condition that their prayer is accepted and their wish is fulfilled are very foolish. It is in regard to such people that the Holy Quran says: َو َنِم ِساَّنلا ْنَم ُدُبْعَّي َهّٰللا ىٰلَع ٍفْرَح ْنِاَف ٗهَباَصَا ُرْيَخ َّنَاَمْط۟ا ٖهِب َو ْنِا ُهْتَباَصَا ُةَنْتِف َبَلَقْن۟ا ىٰلَع َو َنِم ِساَّنلا ْنَم ُدُبْعَّي َهّٰللا ىٰلَع ٍفْرَح ْنِاَف ٗهَباَصَا ُرْيَخ َّنَاَمْط۟ا ٖهِب َو ْنِا ُهْتَباَصَا ُةَنْتِف َبَلَقْن۟ا ىٰلَع 1 ٖهِهْجَو َرِسَخ اَيْنُّدلا َو َةَرِخٰاْلا َكِلٰذ َوُه ُناَرْسُخْلا ُنْيِبُمْلا ٖهِهْجَو َرِسَخ اَيْنُّدلا َو َةَرِخٰاْلا َكِلٰذ َوُه ُناَرْسُخْلا ُنْيِبُمْلا Some people worship Allah the Exalted, standing as it were on the edge—content if some good happens, but turn aside upon facing some trial. Such people suffer loss here and in the Hereafter. And this loss is manifest. The Promised Messiah as said: Among the Companions ra there were those who had wives and children as well, and this system of mortality and death was operative among them too, but no complaint was heard from them as we hear from some foolish people of this age. The rea- son is that the Companions had divorced the love of this world. They were ever ready to lay down their lives, so what did they care for wives and children? They never asked for prayers for such things. And this is why no such complaints arose among them. They had already sacrificed themselves for the sake of faith. 2 1. And among men there is he who worships Allah on the borderline of belief, then if good attends him, he is content therewith; and if there befall him a tri- al, he turns away from Allah. He loses in this world as well as in the Hereafter. That is an evident loss ( S u rah al- H ajj, 22:12). [Publisher] 2. Badr, vol. 1, no. 16, p. 3, dated 20 July 1905