Malfuzat – Volume I — Page 91
Malfuzat - Volume I 91 deny prophethood is to deny God. One who recognises a saint recognises the Prophet. In other words, one could say that the Prophet is like an iron nail that underpins divinity, and a saint serves the same purpose for a Prophet. Now, one ought to reflect upon the fact with an objective mind that God established this religion on earth 1,300 years ago through the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. But today 1,300 years have passed; in fact it has been 15 years since the dawn of the fourteenth century. If one mentions these facts to the Aryas, Brahamos, naturalists, atheists and Christians, they laugh and mock. But nonetheless in this time of peril, on the one hand there is enlightenment in the modern sciences, and on the other hand, the dispositions of people have undergone a significant transformation, and various denominations and religions have abounded. Hence, it has become a very difficult task to present these matters to the people so that they might accept them. People began to consider Islam and what it presents to be nothing more than tales and fables. However, Allah the Exalted had promised the following: إِنَّا نَحْنُ نَزَّلْنَا الذِّكْرَ وَإِنَّا لَهُ لَحْفِظُوْنَ Verily, We Ourself have sent down this Exhortation, and most surely We will be its Guardian. As such, God Almighty took it upon Himself to safeguard the Quran and Islam, and saved the Muslims from ruin and did not allow them to fall prey to trial. Blessed are those who value this institution and derive benefit from it. The fact is that in the absence of evidence-as the human disposition tends to immediately incline towards scepticism—even people within the fold would renounce their belief in the Quran and Islam, considering both to be nothing but tales and fables. For example, if a sound comes from within a room, a person outside would assume that there must be someone inside the room. However, when the person observes that no one has exited the room for three or four days, their initial thought begins to change. Moreover, without even entering the room, the person infers that if someone was in the room, they would require food and drink, and exit the room. And so, in this era of philosophy and secular enlightenment, if the light and blessings of prophethood, which come in the form of divine revelation, had not been manifested, Muslim children living in Muslim homes would have taken Islam and the Quran to be tales and fables, and they would have become 1 al-Hijr, 15:10