The Reality of Khilafah — Page 98
SIRRUL-KHILAFAH— 98 for more. The world has become abounds with liars, slanderers, defamers, backbiters, transgressors, evildoers, adulterers, fornica- tors, drinkers, betrayers, and bribers. People’s hearts have become hardened. They do not fear Allah or keep in mind the inevitability of death, and they eat as cattle eat. They do not realize the true essence of Islam. They are inundated by carnal desires and their every action or inaction is aimed at their fulfilment. This is how they sleep and this is how they wake up. The rich among them drown in wealth and eat like cattle, while the destitute cry out for want of necessities and the hounding of the lender. We complain only to the Gracious God. There is no power beside Him that can enable anyone to do good or avoid evil. As for the harm caused by the Christians, it is beyond meas- ure, as I have mentioned in my previous books. When Allah observed how, in this age, evil gushes forth from within and with- out, His wisdom and mercy required that He should reform these people through a man who walks in two footsteps: the footsteps of ‘ I s a and the footsteps of Ahmad al-Mu st af a [the Chosen One]. This person would be so fully immersed in the attributes of the two that he would be given both their names. Do understand this subtle point of spiritual wisdom; do not oppose it, and do not be the first of its deniers. By the Lord of the Ka‘bah, this is the man- ifest truth, and vain is what the Shiites and Sunnis claim. Hasten not to reject me. Seek the guidance of the Lord of Honour, then come to me as seekers of the Truth. However, if you turn away and choose not to accept me, then come forth and let us call our sons and your sons, our women and your women, and let us pray fervently and invoke the curse of Allah upon the liar. This is the truth that Allah revealed to me with His great and