Malfuzat – Volume I — Page 201
Malfuzat - Volume I 201 Do not forget that your graves are calling you, and death approaches with every passing moment. Your each and every breath pushes you closer, yet you consider this to be a time of relief. It does not behove a believer to try and deceive Allah the Exalted. When death arrives, there is no pushing it forward or turning it back. As for those people who do not value this community and who see no greatness in it, let them go. However, even more unfortunate are those who have recognised this community to be true and were concerned to join the fold, but now they take it for granted-such people wrong their own souls. Those who do not visit often to stay in my company, and who do not hear and observe the signs which God Almighty manifests on a daily basis in support of this community, irrespective of how pious, God-fearing and righteous they may be, I would still hold that they did not value the community as they should have. I have already mentioned that after a person's knowledge is perfected, the per- fection in one's practice is required. Hence, perfection in practice is impossible without the perfection of one's knowledge, and until a person comes to stay here, the perfection of their knowledge is difficult. I receive a multitude of letters in which people write that some person raised the following allegation and we were unable to respond. What is the reason for this? This is because they do not come here to visit and do not listen to the insights which God Almighty manifests in terms of knowledge, to support this divine community. Therefore, if you truly recognise the divine nature of this community and be- lieve in God, and if you sincerely promise to give precedence to religion over worldly affairs, then I ask, what endeavours are being made in this regard? Has the commandment (Be with the truthful) been abrogated? If you truly have faith and truly fortunate you are, if you do―then give precedence to Allah the Exalted over all else. If you consider this advice to be useless and worth- less, then remember, you shall be deemed as one who mocks God Almighty. ² All the Insights of the Holy Quran Are Comprised in Surah Fatihah If one deeply reflects over Surah Fatihah, which is a subtle outline of the Holy Quran and known as the 'Mother of the Book, one will find that it encompasses in brief all the insights of the Holy Quran. As such, the chapter begins with at-Tawbah, 9:119 Al-Hakam, vol. 5, no. 31, dated 24 August 1901, pp. 1-3