The Essence of Islam – Volume V — Page 8
8. Essence of Islam-V prophecies of earlier Prophetsas. But ignorant and uncouth people-bereft as they are of the subtle verities and truths of religion, and unaware as they are of the ways of God are driven by their bias and prejudice to raise hasty objections. They are always waiting for some calamity to befall me in keeping with the verse 21 but are themselves unconscious of the يَتَرَبَّصُ بِكُمُ الدَّوَابِ من عَلَيْهِمْ دَابِرَةُ السَّوْءِ3 verse [Haqiqat-ul-Mahdi, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 14, pp. 441-442]. God Almighty deals with everyone according to one's relationship with Him. Though the loved ones of God also suffer hardships, Divine help and succour is still clearly on their side, and He, in His honour, never allows them to be humiliated and disgraced. Nor can. His love [for them] allow their name to be obliterated from the face of the earth. Also, the very essence of miracles is that when a man, with all his being, becomes God's, and no intervening veil is left between him and his Lord, and he completes all the stages of loyalty and truthfulness which remove the veil, he then becomes heir to God and to His powers, and God. Almighty shows all kinds of signs for his sake, some of which are for repelling evil while others are for bestowing good. Some of these signs pertain to his person, some to his family, some to his foes, and some to his friends. Some relate to his countrymen while others are universal. Some belong to the earth "They wishfully await calamities to befall you. -Al-Taubah, 9: 98 [Publisher] 3 Let evil befall them instead. -Al-Taubah, 9: 98 [Publisher]