The Essence of Islam – Volume IV — Page 274
274. Essence of Islam-IV your hearts and wash your inner self. You can please everyone with hypocrisy and double dealing, but you will only earn the wrath of God by this habit. Have mercy upon yourselves and safeguard your progeny against ruin. It is not possible that God should be pleased with you while in your hearts there is someone who is dearer to you than Him. Spend yourselves in His way, and be devoted to Him, and become wholly His if you desire that you should see Him in this very life. [Rāz-e-Haqiqat, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 14, pp. 156-157]. Purpose for the Establishment of the Jama'at. The purpose of God Almighty in setting up this. Jama'at is that the true understanding of God, which has disappeared from the world, and true righteousness and purity, which are not to be found in this age, might be re-established. Arrogance is rife throughout the world. The divines are caught in the pride and vanity of their learning. You find that the condition of the mendicants belies their objectives. They are wholly unconcerned with self-improvement, and all the disciplines which they have devised are error and innovation. They are only words and form and have no spiritual reality. Their exercises and devotion have a different form altogether like meaningless repetitions which cannot be traced back to the Holy. Prophets. I find that they pay no attention to inner purification, nor can their artificial disciplines purify