Flowers for the Women Wearing Veils - Volume I — Page 292
! ! 292 The Most Important Thing i s Knowledge Regarding God Many women may believe they are knowledge able regarding God , but in actuality, they do not know God. If they did know Him, they would have absolute faith in Him. As a result of not understanding Him, many women promptly associate every action and every consequence with t aqdir [destiny]. This is evidence of their unfamiliarity with God and their ignorance of His attributes. Remember , your understanding of predestination is incorrect. Y ou blame God Almighty for the ill consequences of your own mistakes, claiming it to be fate. What you do no t comprehend , is that Go d , the Supreme King of the Heavens and the Earth , has no desire to cause pain to some or to bring happiness to others, to make one cry and others laugh. What benefit c ould He gain from t his ? D oes any mother hope that one of her son s lives and the other dies, that one is blind and the other has sight, or that one is sick and the other is healthy? This is ignorant thinking. Much of our nation’s downfall is due to this [false understanding of the] doctrine of predestination. Due to this , our efforts have gone waste d , our endeavors crippled, and all our struggles rendered fruitless. You must fully understand that this premise of fate is completely erroneous. God Almighty has established rules. W hoever properly followed these rules succeeded, and those who deviated from them failed. F or example, at this Jalsa, many [ women ] are sitting at the back and many in the front. Was it God who arranged them to sit in this manner ? Granted, the organizers may have played a role to some degree, however there is still a definitive difference between the first comers and the late comers. Those who arrived early found a good place in the front and those who came later , sat fu rther back. What role did d estiny play in this? Once during the time of Haz rat ‘U mar ra , some individuals wished to leave the area due to the plague, and Haz rat ‘Umar ra a greed. However, as happens today, there were those who disagreed, and who put forth th is same concept of predestination saying : ا ` َﺗ ِﻔ ﺮ ﱡ ؤ َن ِﻣ ْﻦ َﻗ َﺪ ر 1 ِ “Do you run from Di vine decree?”