Malfuzat - Volume VIII — Page 140
Malf uza t - English translation of Urdu Volume 8 140 one should really and truly understand its full import. Belief in Heaven and Hell should not be based on mere conjecture. One should taste the blessings of Paradise in this very life and be saved from sins in which savage human beings wallow. This was and remains the splendid objective of Islam. This is such a holy and pure objective, the like of which no other people can point out in their religion, nor can they show an example of it. Everyone can say it, but who can show it? I have asked the Aryas and the Christians to present some proof of the existence of the God in which they believe. They could not go beyond long-winded verbosity. They are not aware of the true God the Holy Quran presents. The only way to know Him was through direct communion with Him, which distinguished Islam from other religions. What a pity that these Muslims also rejected this out of opposition to me. Remember with certainty that the ability to be safe from sins can only be attained when a man has absolute faith in Allah the Exalted. This is indeed the chief objective of human life to obtain deliverance from the clutches of sin. Look! A child may wish to get a hold of a snake that appears attractive, and he may even try to touch it, but a sensible person who knows the snake will bite and kill would never dare go near it. He would not even enter a house in which he knows there is a snake. Likewise, when one knows that poison kills, he would never be foolhardy enough to taste it. Similarly, one cannot be safe from sin unless he comes to believe with certainty that it is a deadly poison. This kind of conviction cannot develop with- out cognisance. Why, then, does man sin with audacity, despite having faith in God Almighty and considering sin a sin? The reason for this is none other than that he does not pos- sess that cognisance and discernment which develops the dis- position that destroys sin. Inability to attain this state would be