Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 78
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 10 78 and distract him from God. 1 The result of crying, beseeching, humbling, and showing humility before God is that for such a person the love of his faith becomes his priority over everything else—the love of the world, greed, covetousness, luxury, and opulence. This is because as a matter of principle, one virtuous deed attracts the next, and one sinful act incites the next. When they show pathos and humility in their Prayers, it leads them to shun vanity instinctively and they escape this foul world. The love of this world is cooled off and the love of God is aroused within them. The result is 2 ْمُه ِةوٰكَّزلِل َنْوُلِعٰف ْمُه ِةوٰكَّزلِل َنْوُلِعٰف that is, they spend in the way of God. This is one consequence of 3 ِنَع ِوْغَّللا َنْوُضِرْعُم ِنَع ِوْغَّللا َنْوُضِرْعُم because the love of the world will become cooled off, 4 it will be the nat- ural consequence that they would spend in the way of God, and they would not mind and would not hesitate in giving in the path of God even if they had the treasures of Qarun [Korah]. 5 There are thousands who do not pay the Zakat even though many of the poor and destitute of their nation get ruined and destroyed. They do not even care for them albeit God has obligated the giving of Zakat on everything, even jewellery— though pearls etc. are exempt. The rich and affluent have been 1. From Badr: The Promised Messiah said ٌلاَجِر اَّل ْمِهْيِهْلُت ٌةَراَجِت َّو اَل ٌعْيَب ْنَع ِرْكِذ ِهّٰللا ٌلاَجِر اَّل ْمِهْيِهْلُت ٌةَراَجِت َّو اَل ٌعْيَب ْنَع ِرْكِذ ِهّٰللا [ S u rah an-N u r, 24:38] Meaning that: There are those of Our servants who do not forget Me even for a moment in their big business enterprises. One who has a relationship with God is not called a worldly person. A worldly person is one who does not have God in his mind ( Badr, vol. 7, no. 1, p. 10, dated 9 January 1908). 2. S u rah al-Mu’min u n, 23:5 [Publisher] 3. Who shun all that which is vain ( S u rah al-Mu’min u n, 23:4). [Publisher] 4. From Badr: Worldly love makes one miserly. It is strongly forbidden to incul- cate worldly love and forget the Hereafter ( Badr, vol. 7, no. 1, p. 10, dated 9 January 1908). 5. Qarun was one of the people of Moses as , but he later became a chieftain of Pharaoh. His enormous wealth and pride is mentioned in S u rah al-Qa s a s , 28:77 of the Holy Quran. [Publisher]