Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 410
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 10 410 form of blessings, bounties, and support of God or true piety, righteousness, and purity are absent in them. For man to totally shun all such deeds that are in contra- vention to the pleasure of God, that sin and disobedience to God should appear to him worse than eating fire, that the awe of any worldly glory and glamour in opposition to God should have no impact upon him, that he should consider everything besides God to be no more capable than a dead insect to bene- fit or harm anyone without the will of God, that all his move- ments and pauses and all his deeds should become subordinate to the will of God, that he should lose himself and become one with God—all these things are beyond the capability of man. An Appointee of God is Crucial in Cultivating an Atmosphere that Eradicates Sin Man does not have the power to attain all these excellences, and to become completely free from all the ignoble traits. Therefore, it has been the practice of Allah the Exalted from the very beginning that He sends a human being as His appoin- tee and manifests the wonders of His might at his hands. God accepts his prayers and informs him of it. God opens up the bounty of His converse and dialogue upon him. God manifests such extraordinary miracles and secrets of the unseen through him which people with base desires are incapable of. God man- ifests such lustrous and awe-inspiring events in his support that the hearts of the people, becoming filled with the light of cog- nizance and the pleasure of conviction, become as if they have seen God. Thus—by witnessing the majesty, might, dominion and awe of God—idolatry and all the foul and base desires, which give rise to all sins, are destroyed, and the majesty and