The Essence of Islam – Volume IV — Page 156
156. Essence of Islam-IV in God and His judgement? Sin cannot overcome certainty. Can you thrust yourselves into a consuming fire? The walls of certainty rise to heaven, Satan cannot climb over them. Whoever has been purified, has been purified through certainty. Certainty invests a person with the strength to bear pain, so much so that it makes a king relinquish his throne and makes him put on the garb of a mendicant. Certainty makes every pain easy to endure. Certainty makes one behold God. All ‘Atonement' is false and all 'Redemption' is vain. All purity proceeds only from certainty. It is only certainty that rescues from sin, leads to God, and puts a person ahead of the angels in sincerity and steadfastness. Any religion that does not provide the means for attaining certainty is false. Any religion that cannot exhibit God through sure means is false. Any religion that has nothing to offer except ancient tales is false. God is as He ever was, His powers are as they always were, and He has the ability to show signs as He always had; why then are you content with mere stories? The religion is dead whose miracles and whose prophecies are only tales. Ruined is the Jama'at on which God has not descended, and which the hand of God has not purified. [Kashti-e-Nūḥ, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 19, pp. 67-68]. I would like to urge seekers after truth who are fearful of their accountability before God, not to follow the. Maulavis of this day without full investigation and to beware of them, since the Holy Prophetsa has himself warned against the Maulavīs of the latter days. Do not be confused by the fatāwā [religious edicts] of