Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 295
9 August 1905 295 If there is such a ‘God’ who has not created so much as a particle of any kind, how can we rely on him? And what right does he have over us that we should worship him, since the right to being worshipped must be merited? When there is no such merit to being worshipped, every single particle can ask him, ‘What right do you have over us?’ How can a person be a wor- shipper of God by holding this belief ? On the contrary, in my opinion, in such a case, no argument can be established on the existence of God. If some atheist asks the Aryas what proof there is for the existence of Parmeshwar, what answer can they give—since the creator is identified through the things he creates? Where did the creator come from if the created things did not exist? If souls and particles are accepted to exist on their own, what is the need for someone to connect them? So, they possess no argument for the existence of Allah the Exalted, and unless there is an argument about His existence, how can anyone believe that He exists? Apart from this, these people do not subscribe to the prin- ciple that God is Merciful. Everyone focuses on the entity that they recognise as Merciful, Beneficent, and Munificent, but they believe that God cannot bestow anything except by way of the fruits of past deeds. If everything depends on past deeds, how can we rely on such a God and place our hopes in him who has not shown an iota of kindness? These are all the things which, when a person looks at them carefully, he realises that there is no true guidance except in Islam. There is another essential point worth pondering upon. A great characteristic of Islam is that the purpose for which man has been created cannot be attained except through Islam. What is that [purpose]? It is to grow one’s love for God and progress in acquiring His cognisance so one may worship Him with perfect joy and passion. However, this objective cannot be