Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 117
29 January 1907 117 The True Spirit of Kalimah T ayyibah [the Credo of Islam] I (Q adi Muhammad Akmal of Goleki) submitted: Your Holiness, is there also a spiritual reward in the repeated recital and remembrance of: ِّٰ هّٰلل ُّٰ مُحَمَّد ٌ رَّسُوْل ُ ا هّٰلل َّا اَل ِ اِلٰہ َ ا َآ اَل ِّٰ هّٰلل ُّٰ مُحَمَّد ٌ رَّسُوْل ُ ا هّٰلل َّا اَل ِ اِلٰہ َ ا َآ اَل [‘There is none worthy of worship except Allah, Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah’]? The Promised Messiah as said: Only if there is a relationship with God in one’s heart. On request for further elaboration of this point, the Promised Messiah as said: The fact of the matter is that lip service is not my way. There are many errors in these methods. The true spirit of all these ways of remembering [Allah] lies in acting upon them. Once the revered Companions ra [of the Holy Prophet s as ] were uttering ‘Allah’ loudly. The Prophet s as said, ‘Your God is not deaf. ’ Thus, since the meaning of the Kalimah is to establish in Tau hi d [the Oneness of God] and to obey His Messenger, so this should be the aim. Therefore, spiritual reward lies in giving precedence to Allah over all matters, and to have full faith in Allah; not to say or act contrary to His attributes, so much so as to not even have such a thought. The statement by Almighty Allah: 1 ٌلاَجِر اَّل ْمِهْيِهْلُت ٌةَراَجِت َّو اَل ٌعْيَب ْنَع ِرْكِذ ِهّٰللا ٌلاَجِر اَّل ْمِهْيِهْلُت ٌةَراَجِت َّو اَل ٌعْيَب ْنَع ِرْكِذ ِهّٰللا also means this same thing, that they do not forget My com- mandments even while they are engaged in their worldly affairs. Observe that even now I am not repeating invocations 1. Men whom neither trade nor commerce makes oblivious of the remembrance of Allah ( S u rah an-N ur , 24:38). [Publisher]