Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 228
ILLNESS Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I 228 them? In this, surely, is mercy and admonition for a people who believe (29:52);" and, on his doing so, said to him: "In this verse Allah has set out all stages for the progress of a seeker after truth. He asks: Is not the Book that We have sent down to Muhammad sa sufficient for all the needs of the believers? There is in it mercy for them and every type of admonition. I am well acquainted with the phenomena of nature and every form of vision, but after this divine testimony I deem it the height of ingratitude to have recourse to any other method of spiritual progress. I consider them the ways of mummery. Remember this, all of you. If any idea contrary to this should arise in your minds after I am gone, seek guidance through: There is no power to do good and no strength to resist evil except through Allah, the Most High, the Most Great. Then consider another divine testimony which is in the very beginning of the Holy Quran, namely: I, Allah, the All-Knowing, affirm that this is the Perfect Book, there is no doubt in it. It is a guidance for the righteous (2:2-3). This means that the Quran furnishes the only way of achieving righteousness. I point this out to you under divine direction. It is related in A ha d i th that the Holy Prophet sa used diverse formulae for seeking the protection of Allah, but after the last two chapters of the Holy Quran were revealed, he discarded everything else and confined himself to them.