Mahzarnama (The Memorandum) — Page 56
56 Mahzarnama illumination of the heart and lighting up the conscience and of wonderful disclosures. It leads everyone to the heights of progress according to their capacities. The righteous have always been in need of walking in the light of the Holy Quran. Whenever Islam has been confronted with any other religion in consequence of some new condition of the age, the sharp and effective instrument that has immediately come to hand is the Holy Quran. Likewise, whenever any hostile philosophic idea gained currency, it was the Holy Quran which in the end destroyed this accursed plant, and proved it worthless, thus showing to the world that the true philosophy is to be found nowhere but in the Holy Quran. In the modern age, when Christian missionaries started their propaganda and made an attempt to draw away unintelligent and ignorant people from the Unity of God and to make them worship a humble creature and employed every kind of sophistry for dressing up their doubtful ideas and thus created a storm in India, it was the Holy Quran which repelled them so that they are not now able to face an intelligent person and their extensive apologetics have been folded up like a piece of paper. " [Izala-e-Auhaam, Roohaani Khazaa’in vol. 3 p. 381] "Man needs to be freed from the fatal passion of sin. The greatness of God should so occupy his heart that it should rid him of the overpowering desire of passion which falls upon him like lightning and instantly consumes his reserves of righteousness. Those impure passions which attack repeatedly like epilepsy and destroy all sense of piety cannot be wiped out by a self-conceived concept of God; nor can they be suppressed only by one's own thinking, or blocked by an atonement without suffering its agony. This is not a matter of indifference but in the estimation of a wise person it is worthy of consideration above all else as to how he might safeguard himself against the ruin which confronts him on account of his daring and his lack of relationship with God. The root of which is sin and disobedience. It is obvious that a person cannot give up a certain pleasure for