Malfuzat - Volume VIII — Page 131
Lecture Ludhiana 131 1 َو ْدَقَل ُمُكَرَصَن ُهّٰللا ٍرْدَبِب َّو ْمُتْنَا ٌةَّلِذَا َو ْدَقَل ُمُكَرَصَن ُهّٰللا ٍرْدَبِب َّو ْمُتْنَا ٌةَّلِذَا This verse actually implied a prophecy: When Islam would become frail and weak in the fourteenth century Hijri, Allah the Exalted would come to its aid according to His promise. So why do you find it strange that Allah helped Islam? I am not saddened that I was called a liar and a dajj a l [deceiver] or that I was slandered, for it was absolutely necessary that I should have been treated in the same way as God’s Messengers who came before me were treated so that I too receive a share of this age-old tradition. In fact, my share of these sufferings and hardships is not even a fraction of what our lord and master, the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, had to face. His suffering has no parallel in the whole history of the Prophets, peace be upon them all. He suffered such hardship for the sake of Islam as is beyond the pen to write and the tongue to express. This shows how magnificent and resolute a Prophet he was. Had he not been assisted and helped by God Almighty, it would have been impossible for him to bear the immense bur- den of these difficulties. Any other Prophet would have failed. But how can I describe the present-day condition of the Islam that he spread in the face of such suffering and hardship! The Essence of Islam and its Teaching The meaning of Islam was that man should become lost in the love and obedience of God. And just as the neck of a goat is placed in front of the butcher, so the neck of a Muslim should 1. And Allah had already helped you at Badr when you were weak ( S u rah A l-e- ‘Imr a n, 3:124). [Publisher]