Way of The Seekers — Page 13
13 THE every word we utter in affirmation of God. God is One, without associate. What we affirm with our tongues we must Illustrate by our deeds, not ever reducing God to the status of man. We owe to our fellow creatures that we harbor no malice, hatred, prejudice, rancor, desire to harm, or intent against them to injure. It is not easy to attain these negative virtues. You are still very distant from this spiritual station. Have you set right your personal relations with your brethren? I am afraid not. You have not given up complaints and counter complaints nor backbiting. You trample over other people’s rights. God wants you to live like brothers and to function as parts of one organic whole. Thus alone can you attain spiritual bliss. If human beings cannot deal honestly with their own brothers, how can they with God? True, God's claim on our obedience is very great. But the measure of how pure your account is with God is how pure it is with His creatures. One who is not straight and sincere with men cannot be straight and sincere with God To be straight and sincere is no small matter. It is something big and difficult. Sincere love is one thing, insincere and hypocritical love, quite another. When a believer falls ill, another believer goes and visits him to express his concern. If a believer dies, fellow believers join his funeral. No questions should be raised over small matters. It is best if such things are ignored. God does not approve of your living at a dis- tance from one another. Without true love, there is no Jamaat – it is the end of the Jamaat. (Badr; 1908) I ask forgiveness of Allah, my Lord, for all sins and I turn wholly to Him. This is the quality of Taqwa (fear of God) the Promised Messiah inculcates in his counsels to the Jamaat. So it behoves us to cultivate Taqwa (fear of God in its true spirit). Only then shall we be able to fulfill the purpose of our lives,