Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 518
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 10 518 present’] or He reveals His countenance through His wonderful Word and mighty Signs from the unseen? To say that God used to show Signs and miracles before and used to send Messengers in earlier times but He no longer does so, is to show great disre- spect and contempt 1 of God. Why is it that although now He hears and sees, yet He does not speak any more? Besides, what proof do you have that His abilities of hearing and seeing are not extinct just as His power to speak is? Man cannot dissociate himself from his nature. Could a lamb be employed to carry out the job of a wolf ? Of course not! The same is the case of the nature of man that it cannot deviate from its constitution. How can it be convinced merely by tales! Someone might express satisfaction on the surface, but his heart would curse, reject, and refuse to accept. You must realize that if revelation ever existed in earlier times, then it is inevitable that revelation must occur in this age as well. When Islam was united as one community and had but a few members, it held the need for a Prophet and a Messenger, and had the need for revelations to occur. Now, when the one has split in to seventy-three sects and there is no limit or con- straint left on the divisions—a seal is forcibly placed on the Word of God and the mouth of God is forced shut! No right- eous heart and sane mind can accept this logic. Necessity is the mother of everything that comes into being. For instance, there is the case of train accidents. When the incidents of accidents started increasing, corrective meas- ures came into being. All the technology we observe has indeed been brought about by need. So, now, when the condition of man has reached rock bottom—be it in its external state or internal—atheism dominates every faction and a living faith 1. From Badr: We have no clue now whatsoever whether God is even alive or not at this time ( Badr, vol. 7, no. 25, p. 6, dated 25 June 1908).