Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 326
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 7 326 the moon and hide in some basement, how will the light come there? There is a law for attaining everything. If someone wants to attain it by abandoning that law and deviating from it, he will not be able to achieve it. For example, if they are not used, the faculties that are in the eyes and ears lose their capability. In the same way, God Almighty has set this law in place that man should first purify his heart and oppose the evil promptings of his ego. This will remove the intervening dust and dirt and establish that Allah hears and speaks. These things are revealed to those who are cognisant [of Allah]. They behold the attrib- utes of God Almighty in this very world. A person who does not see these attributes mentions them like a parrot mimicking sounds. The cleansing [of Hindu doctrine] done by the Aryas has made it worse than before. If viewed with justice, verbal boasting cannot achieve anything. I say with certainty that all the claims of these people are false because they have not been bestowed the ability to see. What will he see on whom the win- dow of that world is not opened? All that Pandit Dayanand has mentioned is pure conjec- ture. As a blind man lays hands on someone and describes him, he has done the same. He simply said what he said out of the ignorance of bias for his religion. He did not have the eyes to see the wonders of that world. He does not know what God is at all and what His attributes are. Also, remember that if the attributes of a thing are lost, the thing, too, is lost. If a flower does not have its properties and attributes, it will lose its unique identity. In the same way, the being of Parmeshwar does not survive if it is conceded—accord- ing to the statement of the Aryas—that he lacks His attributes because they cannot say that he speaks to anyone. Then what would be the proof that he hears if he does not speak? In the same way Divine omnipotence is invalidated. The