The Heavenly Decree — Page 46
46 A sm a n i Fai s lah In short, the Holy and All-Powerful God is my refuge, and I entrust all my affairs to Him. I do not wish to trade abuses, nor do I wish to say aught; there is One only Who will speak. Alas! how these people have complicated a simple matter and did not consider God Almighty powerful enough to do what He pleases, and to send whosoever He likes as the appointed one. Can man fight God? Or has the progeny of Adam the right to question what He does and what He does not? Does He not have the power to confer the potential and character of one upon the other and to make one resemble the other in hue and temperament, and to give the name of one to another? If man has faith in Allah’s limitless powers, he would reply without hesitation that the might of Allah the Glorious en- compasses everything, and that He can fulfil His words and prophecies in any form and manner He pleases. Readers! consider for yourselves, is it written anywhere that the awaited Jesus would be the self- If we keep nurturing the dog of our baser selves; We are worse than the dogs in the streets. O God, O Guide of the seekers, Your love is the life of our souls. Let us die when You are pleased with us; So that we are met with success in both worlds. The world and the creatures are all busy in its tumult; But Thy seekers live in a world quite apart. O You Who bestows light upon the heart of one; And leaves the other to linger in the mud. My eyes, ears and heart attain light from You; You are the Fountainhead of Guidance and Beneficence. [Translator]