The Ocean of Light — Page 36
36 are crippled such that he cannot even escape, so at a time of such calamities and at a time when such battles have been forced upon Islam, what is there to protect it? Other than that God Almighty should send down His mercy from heaven and should manifest the true face of Islam with His luminous Hand. Moreover, you can see that external afflictions are befalling Islam one after another; the countenance of Islam has been distorted; its fountain-head has retracted deep into the ground, and its streams have dried up; the gatherings of faith have emptied and ended; the beds of the righteous have become hard and devoid of comfort; their affairs are in disarray; and a perpetual state of fear has descended upon them. The swift steeds of their intellect have stumbled, the respected centres of learning lie empty of the learned, and due to an utter lack of the righteous, spring’s rain has ceased. The animalistic among them have abounded, and those who could speak out have