Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 433
26 September 1905 433 یشخب اہجشن دو رہ و ینک دویاہن ی�واہن وت رہ دو اہجں را ہچ دنک � د After making one enamoured with You, You bestow upon him both the worlds, But what is he to do with both these worlds? There is a natural aversion and abhorrence in his heart against being renowned, but those people who are themselves slaves and captives of the vain desires of this kind of grandeur, assume the same thing about them, and deduce in this way that they make such claims out of their own desire to become great. They fail to see that their claim brings upon them a storm of calami- ties and sufferings and puts them in peril. Hands and tongues from every direction are unleashed in opposition against them, not even the slightest effort being spared in causing them pain. Then what kind of injustice and cruelty it is to entertain the suspicion against them that they do this out of their desire for greatness! This is a slander of epic proportion. They but simply enjoy the manifestation of the glory of God Almighty and His greatness, and the proclama- tion of His magnificence. They remain ever ready to lay down even their life—not one life, but a thousand lives!—for Him. Alas, the people of the world are unaware and ignorant of their circumstances, so they raise this kind of objection. The fundamental truth is that the honour of Almighty Allah desires to bring them out in public to stand before the world, and that the God who is hidden from the denizens of the world might be seen in their persons.