The Essence of Islam – Volume II — Page 45
Revelation, Inspiration, Vision and Dream 45 matter and to find its fulfilment is quite another. . . . You can see that both food and water are available for your body, not that they were present in some earlier age but not any more. But when mention is made of revelation you refer to a past age upon which centuries upon centuries have lapsed and you are not able to refer to anything in the present. Then how is there an accord between the physical and spiritual laws of nature? Stop and reflect. You cannot deny that the provision for your physical needs is available to you all the time, but you have nothing with you in the way of provision for your spiritual needs except stories of the past. You know that the physical springs from which you take the water to slake your thirst are still running; nor have your fields become barren and unproductive, the produce of which satisfies your hunger twice a day. But where are the spiritual springs, which used to slake your spiritual thirst by giving you the fresh water of Divine revelation? Nor have you available the spiritual food by eating which you could keep your soul alive. Thus you are in a desert where there is neither food nor water. [Chashma-e-Ma'rifat, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 23, pp. 63-66]. Urdu Couplets. What a pity! They say that revelation has come to an end;. Now this Ummah will have to depend on old tales to the. Day of Judgement. . Surely this belief is against the Word of God;. But who would shed the weight of this age-old yoke?. That God still appoints whomsoever He wishes to be a recipient of revelation (Kalim);. He still speaks to whom He loves.