Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 403
24 September 1905 403 was planned. When he went to Taif, he returned covered with blood. Finally, he had to leave Makkah. But he did not abandon that which was in his heart and for which he had been commis- sioned even for an instant. These sufferings and hardships can never be endured unless there is an inner attraction. A poor person becomes distressed even if he has just a couple of enemies, and is forced to sue for peace in the end. But he who has the whole world as his enemy, how can he bear this burden if there is no strong bond? Sound reason cannot accept this. In short, the pleasure of God’s love is proven heavier in the scale than all other pleasures. Thus, the pleasures that will be found in Paradise are those very pleasures that have been expe- rienced before. And only those understand them who have experienced them before. How will the Bounties of Paradise Come About? If you ask how those bounties come about, then its response is clear. Allah the Exalted has the power to bring about a new creation. The very being of man is itself ephemeral. What is that drop of fluid from which he is born? Just imagine how wonderful a person He makes from it—wise, beautiful, brave—then He is the very God who will bring about a new creation in the other world. Those pleasures and fruits will look similar, but they will be so delicious to eat that no eye has seen them, no ear has heard of them, and no tongue has tasted them, and no mind has conceived them.