Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 362
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 10 362 totally wrong approach. What a wonderful couplet someone composed: ددنہ وکبشش ہن واصشل رگہچ رہ دقر اے دل ہک وتاین وکبش [Although union with the Beloved cannot be achieved through effort— O my heart!—you must exert as much effort as your strength allows]. How painstakingly and diligently a farmer prepares his crops but sometimes his crops are ruined due to hail and sometimes due to drought. But this failure does not result in people giving up farming altogether. There are thousands who continue to toil with full force despite such setbacks and do ultimately reap the fruits of their labour. Allah’s blessings depend upon your efforts. Look, even a poet, when he tries and struggles, something ultimately comes to him and a couplet begins to take shape. It is also necessary for you to study the literature of this Movement, and to observe with careful consideration and fairness, whether they contain the truth or not. In order to arrive at an opinion about any mat- ter, knowledge is absolutely essential. One whose knowledge base becomes extensive, can decide for himself who, out of the parties, is in the right. Most people are, in the first place, reluctant to come to me because of their arrogance and even if they do come, they come having already made up their minds. Such individuals existed in the time of the Holy Prophet s as as well. They always remain deprived, and it is not their lot to attain faith. Such people are, in fact, atheistic and faithless, and wish not to be restrained in any way. The one who is a true Muslim does not face much diffi- culty in assessing the truth, because a Muslim who is true in his faith and is aware of the practice of Allah and of the Messenger, will always do his research keeping the pattern of prophethood