Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 357
16 September 1905 357 1 ِنَمَف َّرُطْضا َرْيَغ ٍغاَب َّو اَل ٍداَع ۤاَلَف َمْثِا ِهْيَلَع ِنَمَف َّرُطْضا َرْيَغ ٍغاَب َّو اَل ٍداَع ۤاَلَف َمْثِا ِهْيَلَع When it is permissible under extreme circumstances to eat pork just to save one’s life, can money from interest not be used purely for upholding the message of Islam to save it from annihilation, given the situation that Islam has become very weak and its very existence threatened? This can certainly be done in my view, and indeed should be done. Manifesting the Grandeur and Glory of Allah the Exalted should be the Objective The Promised Messiah as said: The world is such that no one has ever been able to fulfil its bidding. It is a hidden secret of Allah the Exalted that no one knows when death will come. And when death comes, all possessions and resources are left behind, and sometimes the inheritors of those possessions are people whom the deceased would not have liked to give even a jot had he been alive. So what a mis- take it would be for someone not to spend his wealth where it would be the source of eternal ease and comfort for him. I am amazed when I look at Europe, where people have so much zeal and enthusiasm for making a helpless human into God, while we have nothing for manifesting the grandeur and glory of God Almighty. How great a misfortune is this? Muslims should give priority only to pleasing Allah the Exalted. If they please Him, they will have everything. However, 1. But he who is driven by necessity, being neither disobedient nor exceeding the limit, it shall be no sin for him ( S u rah al-Baqarah, 2:174). [Publisher]