Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 351
16 September 1905 351 many rights of human beings burdening the neck, that have to be discharged? Allah the Exalted says: 1 ْدَق َحَلْفَا ْنَم اَهىّٰكَز ْدَق َحَلْفَا ْنَم اَهىّٰكَز Success cannot be achieved until one purifies the self, and the self becomes purified only when the commandments of Allah the Exalted are respected and obeyed, and the paths that cause pain and suffering to others are avoided. Compassion is a high- grade excellence in a human being. Allah the Exalted says: 2 ْنَل اوُلاَنَت َّرِبْلا ىّٰتَح اْوُقِفْنُت اَّمِم َنْوُّبِحُت ْنَل اوُلاَنَت َّرِبْلا ىّٰتَح اْوُقِفْنُت اَّمِم َنْوُّبِحُت This means you can never attain this virtue [compassion] until you spend the things you love in the way of Allah. It is not the way of pleasing Allah; for example, if a Hindu’s cow gets sick and he says let us give it in charity. There are also many such people who give the poor stale, burnt, rotten bread, which is of no use to anyone, thinking that we have done char- ity. Such things are not acceptable to Allah the Exalted, as He says clearly: 3 ْنَل اوُلاَنَت َّرِبْلا ىّٰتَح اْوُقِفْنُت اَّمِم َنْوُّبِحُت ْنَل اوُلاَنَت َّرِبْلا ىّٰتَح اْوُقِفْنُت اَّمِم َنْوُّبِحُت In reality, no good deed can be a virtue unless you spend in the way of Allah the Exalted that which is dear to you among your possessions for the propagation of His Faith and by way of compassion for His creatures. 1. Surely, he prospers who augments it ( S u rah ash-Shams, 91:10). [Publisher] 2. S u rah A l-e-‘Imr a n, 3:93 [Publisher] 3. S u rah A l-e-‘Imr a n, 3:93 [Publisher]