Tadhkirah — Page 102
102 prohibited category] and to guard their private parts and ears from unworthy acts. That is required and essential for their attainment of purification. This means that it is incumbent upon every believer to refrain from all that is prohibited and to safeguard all his limbs against misuse. His purification depends entirely on this…. [Arabic] When My servants ask you concerning Me, I am close. I respond to the call of the supplicant when he calls on Me. I have sent you so that I may provide the means of attaining mercy for all people. [Arabic] Those who disbelieve from among the People of the Book and the idolaters—that is, have firmly persisted in disbelief—would not desist from their disbelief until clear proof was shown to them. Their stratagem was mighty. This indicates that the heavenly Signs and reasoned arguments that Allah the Almighty has set forth at the hand of this humble one were utterly needed to complete the admonition. The dark-minded people of this age, who are infected with the worm of ignorance and vice, were not likely to give up their mischief without clear Signs and conclusive reasoning. They were instead occupied with devising plans for the utter destruction of the garden of Islam from the face of the earth.