Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 458
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 10 458 Satan gain so much domination that God Himself had to come to the world for its salvation? What is the meaning behind this? The Reality of Sin Answer : My conversations essentially cater to the tastes of those who believe in the existence of God Almighty. The Being of God Almighty is a source of eternal pleasure and happiness for man’s life. It is said that a person has sinned in the event that the individual is separated from God or abandons Him in one way or another. Furthermore, keeping human nature in view, God Almighty has also declared as ‘sin’ those acts of man himself which are ever so subtly injurious to his very own soul, although often- times man is unable to perceive their harm. For example, steal- ing and inflicting loss upon others by encroaching upon their rights is—in a manner of speaking—self-inflicting loss upon one’s own pure life. In addition, those activities which run contrary to the chastity and purity of human nature are also referred to as ‘sin’, just as the manner through which an adulterer’s commission of adultery and trespassing the rights of others ruins his own chaste nature and mires himself in various kinds of physical and spiritual hardships. And then the accompanying requisites— near and far—of those [sinful] activities are also understood to be an extension of sin. God Almighty, who is the One Greatest of all and Most- Knowing of all, is the True Creator of man and every tiny par- ticle, and of their properties He is also the Creator and the All- Knowing. When He pronounces Judgement out of His perfect wisdom and perfect knowledge that something is harmful for you, and its perpetration is never ever advantageous to your