Malfuzat – Volume II — Page 65
65 The Fountainhead of True Knowledge is the Holy Quran This is so because Allah the Exalted has blessed this community with the Holy Quran, which is the source and fountainhead of true knowledge. An individ- ual who finds the divine verities and insights that are expounded in the Holy Quran—which are attained by true righteousness and fear of Allah—is thereby given such knowledge that makes them the likeness of the Israelite Prophets. It is perfectly obvious that if a person does not make use of the weapon that is provided to them, this is the person’s own fault and not the fault of the weapon itself. This is precisely the state of the world at present. Even though the Muslims were given a matchless blessing in the Holy Quran, which could have saved them from every form of misguidance and could have pulled them out of every form of darkness, they abandoned the Holy Quran and showed no regard for its pure teachings. As a result, they became so utterly distanced from Islam that if now, true Islam is presented before them—as they are utterly ignorant and oblivious to it—they will refer to a true believer as being a disbeliever. 1 Make Use of Your God-Given Faculties to Become a Saint There are many people who lead a licentious and dissolute life and they seek the renown, honour, property and wealth of this world. They exhaust their entire life making plans and devising strategies to fulfil such longings and desires. Their yearnings have yet to reach their end when death comes knocking. Now, even people of this nature were given various faculties. If they had made use of these very faculties, they could have attained to the truth. Allah the Exalted was not miserly, but these people failed to employ their own faculties. This is their own misfortune. Fortunate and blessed is the one who employs his faculties. There are many who, when told to fear God Almighty and to act upon His commandments while abstaining from God’s prohibitions, will respond by say- ing, ‘Are we out to become saints?’ Such statements constitute disbelief in my view. This is to think ill of God Almighty. Is God Almighty faced with a short- age? After all, these are not limited government jobs which will finish once they are filled. On the contrary, anyone who develops a sincere relationship with God Almighty will benefit from the bounties that were granted to the pious individu- als of the past. 1 Al-Hakam , vol. 9, no. 10, dated 24 March 1905, p. 5