Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 543
17 May 1908 543 1 اَّنِا ُنْحَن اَنْلَّزَن َرْكِّذلا َو اَّنِا ٗهَل َنْوُظِفٰحَل اَّنِا ُنْحَن اَنْلَّزَن َرْكِّذلا َو اَّنِا ٗهَل َنْوُظِفٰحَل Islam was established in the world by God. He disseminated the teachings of the Quran and it is He Himself who is responsible for its safeguarding as well. When even a human being waters the sapling he has planted assiduously to prevent it from drying up, then would God prove any more inept and careless than even a mere mortal? Remember it well that Islam will make progress today through the very same pathways that it made progress by following before. Dry logic is a bewitching ogress; it causes the faith of an ignorant person to falter, and worldly philosophies are totally opposed to spiritual philosophies. Gentlemen! These are the matters for whose reformation I have been sent. I am also aware that some individuals will arise from this gathering without having effected any change what- soever, and my address will not have had so much as the slight- est impact on their viewpoints. Nonetheless, remember it well that anyone who opposes me, does not, in fact, oppose me, but comes into opposition with Him who sent me. Even if a lowly peon is disrespected and his directive is not accepted, the one who is in contempt of the government or the one who is disobedient in this way is held accountable and pun- ished. Then, how is it possible that disrespecting a person who comes from God and showing no regard to what he says would go unnoticed? I assure you most certainly that if my Movement is not from God, it will fall into disarray by itself whether anyone opposes it or not, because God Almighty Himself says that: 1. Verily, We Ourself have sent down this Exhortation, and most surely We will be its Guardian ( S u rah al- H ijr, 15:10). [Publisher]