With Love to Muhammad (sa) - The Khatam-un-Nabiyyin — Page 326
326 With Love to Muhammad sa the Kh ā tam-un-Nabiyy ī n in this very world. The verse that we have just quoted indicates that the world is never left without the truthful, as the commandment َْ اﻟﺼّٰﺪِﻗِني َ ﻣَﻊ ﻛُﻮْﻧُﻮْا 323 necessitates the presence of the truthful at all times. Besides, observation confirms that the learning and knowledge of those who do not seek the company of the righteous does not help to rid them of their physical passions, and that they do not achieve even that minimum status in Isl ā m which generates the certainty of belief that God does indeed exist. They do not believe in the existence of God with the same certainty as they feel with regard to their wealth, which is locked in their boxes, or about the houses which they own. They dread swallowing arsenic, as they are certain that it is a fatal poison, but they do not dread the poison of sin, though they read in the Holy Qur’ ā n: ََّ هجََـمن َٗ هل َّ ﻓَﺎِن ﻣُﺠْﺮِﻣًﺎ ٗ رَﺑَّﻪ ِ ايَّْت ْ ﻣَﻦ ٗ ۚاِﻧَّﻪ ٰ حيَْىي َ ﻻ َ و ﻓِهيَْﺎ ُ ﻳَﻤُﻮْت َ ﻻ 324 The truth is that he who does not recognize God Almighty cannot recognize the Holy Qur’ ā n. It is true that the Holy Qur’ ā n has been revealed for guidance, but the guidance of the Qur’ ā n is bound up with the personality of the one to whom it was revealed or of one who is appointed his substitute by God. Had the Qur’ ā n alone been enough, God Almighty had the power to have the Qur’ ā n inscribed on the leaves of trees or could have made it descend from heaven in the form of a book, but this was not what He did. He did not send the Qur’ ā n into 323 Ibid. 324 ‘Verily, he who comes to his Lord a sinner—for him is hell; he shall neither die therein nor live. ’—S ū rah T ā h ā , 20:75