Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 460
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 10 460 which is against the inherent debt owed to God Almighty and is harmful for the nature of man. Everyone perceives sin. You see, when someone slaps an innocent person knowing he has no right to do so, he will ultimately become repentant and ashamed in his heart on his own at a later time when his anger dissipates, and will feel that he has done wrong. Someone who feeds the hungry, gives drink to the thirsty, and clothes the naked, experiences a kind of sensation within his inner self that he has carried out a virtue and an act of goodness. Through the light of faith, the heart and conscience of man make him understand at the time of every deed whether he has carried out an act of virtue or committed an act of sin. Satan As for Satan, it should be remembered that two forces have been placed in the design and nature of man, and those two are the opposite of each other. They have been placed for the purpose that man, being tested and tried through them with a successful outcome, be proven worthy of the nearness of Allah. Of these two forces, one force pulls towards goodness while the other invites towards evil. The force pulling towards goodness is called malak or an angel and the force inviting towards evil is called Satan. In other words, you can think of it as two forces function- ing with man, one bestowing good and the other bestowing evil. Should anyone be averse to the terms ‘angel’ and ‘Satan’, then think of it in this very way, as these two forces in man can- not be denied by anybody. God Almighty did not will any evil at any time. The works undertaken by God Almighty are the most virtuous of virtues. You see, if the existence of sin were not in this world, then