The Essence of Islam – Volume IV — Page 293
Propagation, Establishment of a Holy Jama'at, and Instructions 293 all dirt and filth from the clothes. Then he gets up early next morning and carries the laundry to the water and after wetting the clothes strikes them repeatedly against smooth stones until the dirt, which had stuck to the clothes and had become part of the laundry, begins to depart. As a result of both the boiling and being beaten against stones, the clothes become as white as new. This is also the way of cleansing the human self. Your salvation depends entirely upon acquiring this pristine whiteness. This is what God Almighty says in the Holy Qur'ān: 153 قَدْ أَفْلَحَ مَنْ زَكْهَان " [Government Angrezi aur Jihad, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 17, pp. 14-15]. So long as a person does not set right his affair with. God Almighty in every situation and does not discharge fully the two kinds of obligations that he owes, he cannot achieve his purpose. As I have mentioned, obligations are of two kinds: those due to Allāh, and those due to His creatures. The latter are of two kinds: those that are owed to brethren in faith whether they are related as father, son, or brother, they are still brothers in faith—and the other obligation is to mankind in general, by way of true sympathy. . The principal obligation due to God Almighty is that. He should be worshipped and this worship should 153 He indeed truly prospers who purifies it [the soul]. -Al-Shams, 91:10 [Publisher]