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27 December 1907 51 that one sin, and sends them to this world. This begs the ques- tion that if Parmeshwar was displeased with those holy people and deliberately wanted to expel them from Mukti Khanah, then why did he enter them in the ‘Abode of Salvation’ in the first place? After all, he must have been pleased with them to admit them. It is not as if he pushed them into Mukti Khanah ran- domly. Pleasure [of God] and sins [of man] cannot coexist, which implies that Parmeshwar was not pleased with them in the first place. 1 And if he was pleased, then one has to concede that he was not aware of their sins [at that time] because as soon as he became aware of these sins, he expelled them from Mukti Khanah. Some Aryas respond by saying that the reason for their expulsion from Mukti Khanah was that their deeds were finite, and since their deeds were finite, their reward—therefore— had to be finite as well. Little do they realize that these poor pious people had suffered greatly in the path of Parmeshwar and had sacrificed every particle in his path—all this was not for the sake of a few days’ trip to Mukti Khanah and to be sent back in any filthy guise thereafter. One should look at their intent. If their intent was only to love Parmeshwar for a few years and to abandon it afterwards, then one can understand. Otherwise, as 2 ِ َعْـمَال ُ بِالنِّیَّات إِنَّـمَا الْأ ِ َعْـمَال ُ بِالنِّیَّات إِنَّـمَا الْأ [‘Verily, deeds are (judged) by intentions’], what was the fault of those who attained salvation? The fault lies with Parmeshwar that he caused them to die because, had they remained alive, they would have never given up the love of Parmeshwar. They 1. From Badr: When a person says to the other that ‘I am now pleased with you’, is it meant that his sin was also forgiven? It cannot be that one is pleased yet has not forgiven the sin ( Badr, vol. 7, no. 1, p. 6, dated 9 January 1908). 2. S a hih al-Bukh a r i , Kit a b Bad’ul-Wa hi , B a b Kaifa K a na Bad’ul-Wa hi il a Ras u l- ill a hi, Hadith 1 [Publisher]