Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 177
26 February 1908 177 1 َرُبَك اًتْقَم َدْنِع ِهّٰللا ْنَا اْوُلْوُقَت اَم اَل َنْوُلَعْفَت َمِل َنْوُلْوُقَت اَم اَل َنْوُلَعْفَت۰۰ َرُبَك اًتْقَم َدْنِع ِهّٰللا ْنَا اْوُلْوُقَت اَم اَل َنْوُلَعْفَت َمِل َنْوُلْوُقَت اَم اَل َنْوُلَعْفَت۰۰ Now is the time to join the sabequn [those who advance and greatly excel others] means that you should excel in every virtue. Actions alone are of use; all verbal chit chat serves no purpose. Look, the Holy Prophet s as told Hazrat Fatimah ra that she should be concerned about saving her own soul and not expect that he would be of any help to her. Of course, Allah is not the kin of anyone. In the Hereafter, one would not be asked who one’s father was. Rather, it will be deeds that would be inquired about. Man has many kinds of sins, laziness, arrogance, lethargy, and very fine and subtle sins—one should strive to eschew all of them. In the Holy Quran Allah the Exalted has defined three states of the human self— Ammarah [the self that incites to evil], Lawwamah [the self-reproaching self ], and Mutma’innah [the soul at rest]. Nafs-e-ammarah goes on pull- ing a man towards sin and disobedience all the time, and is very dangerous. Lawwamah is the self that reproves and reprimands man upon commission of any evil deed, but even this is not satisfactory either. The only satisfactory state of self is the one that has been termed nafs-e-mutma’innah by Allah the Exalted, and that is the only laudable state. That term is applied to the state when one comes to abide with God. It is by arriving at this state that man is purified of the filth of sin. This alone is the state which consumes sin, and it is only with people who have attained this rank that promises of blessings have been made. Angels descend upon them and true piety and purity is exclu- sively their lot. Mere verbal assertion has absolutely no merit in the 1. Why do you say what you do not do? Most hateful is it in the sight of Allah that you say what you do not do ( S u rah a s - S aff, 61:3–4). [Publisher]