Lecture Lahore — Page 8
8 quires perfect awareness, and this is what the word 'Islam' signifies. God Almighty says in the Holy Quran: 2 i. e. , neither the flesh nor the blood of your sacrifices reaches Me; the only sacrifice that reaches Me is that you fear Me and adopt righteousness for My sake. It should be borne in mind that all the teachings of Islam lead us to the single objective which is inherent in the word 'Islam', and, to this end, the Holy Quran endeavours to inculcate Divine love in our hearts. It reveals to us not only His beauty and glory, but also reminds us of His countless favours, for it is only through beauty and kind- ness that love finds its way into a person’s heart. The Holy Quran teaches us that, by virtue of all His excel- lences, God is One and has no partner. He suffers from no shortcoming. He comprehends all perfect attributes and manifests all holy powers. He is the Originator of all crea- tion and Source of all grace. He is the Lord of reward and punishment, and everything returns to Him. He is near de- spite being far, and is distant despite His proximity. He is above everything, but we cannot say that there is anyone below Him. He is the most Hidden, but it cannot be said that anything is more manifest than He is. He is Self- Existent and everything subsists because of Him. He sus- tains everything but nothing sustains Him. Nothing has 2 Al- H ajj, 22:38 [Publishers]