Real Revolution — Page 36
36 امن و اصلح فلا خوف عليهم ولا هم يحزنون والذين كَذَّبُوا بِآيَاتِنَا يَمَسُّهُمُ الْعَذَابُ بِمَا كَانُوا يفسقون (50-6:49) i. e. whenever We send a messenger, he always proclaims two things: (i) he condemns the existing order to death: (ii) and in regard to the system he originates himself he proclaims, without ambiguity, that it would be established in the world in its purity, without change or adjustment under any pressure to make it acceptable to this or that people. Those who submit to this system, and ; mould themselves in conformity with its requirements, survive and prosper: but those who do not do so, they gradually fade out of existance. . Aslahans to mould a thing into conformity with a givea thing or value. Jas (good deeds) in this context, therefore, would be deeds in conformity with the requirements of the new values and the new situation. It should be clearly borne in mind that ‘amal-i-salih, generally understood as good deeds, is really speaking much more than that, there being an important difference between the two. For instance, it is a good thing to offer one's prayers, but if a man were to engage himself in prayer at a time when the need of the moment