Favours of the Gracious God — Page 84
84 their own error and a defect of aspiration, they did not recognise this true fountain of life; instead, on account of their [spiritual] blindness, they focused this passion towards fabricating something unworthy. Consequently, some deified stones, some deified Ramachandra, some deified Krishna and some, God forbid, deified the Son of Mary. They did this under the misconception that perhaps it was that which was sought. Thus, such peo - ple met a [spiritual] death by handing over the rights of God to creation. Similarly, out of a spiritual craving for the True Beloved and Sayyid , those who worship the wind were deceived, for their hearts too contained a desire for a Beloved and true Sayyid ; but by not being able to properly understand their heartfelt desires, they thought that such a true beloved and Sayyid —which the souls desire and for whose obedience the spirits are astir—is none other than the material wealth, material property and pleasures of this world. But this was their mistake. Instead, the One Who arouses spiritual desires and is the cause of pure emotions is that One Being Who has said: ِ ض ُدُو�ْ ج �َْع ی�ِِاَّلَّ ل ا َ ْس ض �ِْ اَّل ا َ و َّ ض �ِ ج�ْال ُ ت �ْ ت َل�َ ض � مَا َ و 1 mean - ing that I am indeed the purpose for which the jinn and 1 “And I have not created the Jinn and the men but that they may worship Me. ” S u rah Adh-Dh a riy a t 51:57. [Publisher]