The Ocean of Light — Page 86
86 property and wealth. They portray their freedom and licentiousness in a beautiful light and offer the best intoxicants. Thus, the apostates think that fasting, prayer and righteousness are a burden upon them. In short, this is the type of war that faithlessness is waging. However in a war, victory and defeat alternates between the warring parties. Now God’s anger has been provoked to come to the aid of His religion, how can He overlook all this. Not a day passes without a new innovation being made. The enemy sometimes interpolates the words [of God] or redacts them. The Ummah of Islam has splintered into sects and each of them has taken a different path [in the matters of faith]. Some of them have blindly followed the laws of nature and became Naturists, saying that they do not recognise the miracles and supernatural acts of the Prophets, for they are mere tales that are not validated by the laws of nature, nor do they find anything like it in the observable realm. Others have followed the