Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 406
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 10 406 salvation. Just as a man cannot remain alive if he does not so much as see food at the time of hunger and water at the time of thirst, in the same way he too would die who just saw or ate one grain of food at the time of hunger and saw or even drank just one drop of water at the time of thirst. Thus, in exactly the same way, it is only perfect cognizance that can lead to salvation. We see this even in the material world, that it is only perfect knowledge and understanding that has any effect. Even if a per- son were to encounter a lion or a wolf, he would not be fright- ened by them until he comes to believe for certain that the lion is indeed a lion or the wolf is indeed a wolf with all its qualities and characteristics. If a person believes a poisonous snake to only be a mouse, he would certainly not take any steps to avoid or stay away from it. However, the moment he comes to realize that it is a poisonous snake and its bite will signal his death, he will become frightened by it and will immediately flee from it. The Doctrine of Atonement Look, nafs-e-ammarah [the self that incites to evil] is always at work in a person. It is—like blood—in every vein and fibre, and every particle. The Christians have contrived an easy and convenient way. They offered up a person on the cross. And now any person who belongs to Christianity can do whatever he likes till the Day of Judgement; he will not be questioned at all—the blood of Christ has already atoned for all their sins. These ignorant ones do not understand that if someone has a headache and another gets up and smashes his own head with a rock, how is that going to benefit the one who has the headache? I announce to you with full conviction that their Atonement and blood of Christ cannot provide them so much