Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 23
26 December 1906 23 until a person accepts this reality. That is why the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, has stated, َ مَن ْ قَال َ َمَن ْ قَال َّ ا هّٰللُّٰ دَخَل َ الْجَنَّۃ اَل ِ َاَلَۤ اِلٰه َ ا َّ ا هّٰللُّٰ دَخَل َ الْجَنَّۃ اَل ِ اَلَۤ اِلٰه َ ا ; Meaning that, whoever accepted هّٰللُّٰ َّ ا اَل ِ اَلَۤاِلٰه َ ا هّٰللُّٰ َّ ا اَل ِ اَلَۤاِلٰه َ ا [ L a il a ha illall a hu —There is no one worthy of worship except Allah] with a sincere heart, enters Paradise. 1 People are deceived if they think that a person enters Paradise by just repeating these words like a parrot. If there was even the slightest truth in this, then all deeds would be rendered vain and useless, and the Shariah (God forbid) would be deemed absurd. Nay! On the contrary, the true essence of this is that the under- standing which is embedded within it [the Kalimah ] may enter the heart of the person in a practical manner. When this condi- tion develops, then a person truly enters Paradise 2 not only after death, but he is in Paradise even in this very life. This is a true statement and quick to comprehend that when a person does not have any beloved or objective besides Allah the Exalted, then no pain or difficulty can trouble him. This is the status that is given to the Abd a l and Qu t b. 3 1. S a hih Ibn H i bba n, Kit a bul- I m a n, Dhikru Khabrin Th a nin auhama man lam Yu h kim S in a ‘atal- H ad i thi Annal- I m a na bi Kam a lih i Huwal-Iqr a ru bil-Lis a ni D u na an Yaqrinahul- A ‘m a l bil- A ‘ da ’, Hadith 169, D a rul-Ma‘rifah, Beirut, 2004 [Publisher] 2. From Badr: ‘God Almighty does not concern Himself with words, He relates to hearts. What this means is that the people who in reality cause the mean- ings of this Kalimah to enter into their hearts, and the glory of God Almighty settles in their hearts with all its resplendence, they enter Paradise. When a person is truly convinced of the Kalimah then they have no beloved other than God, they hold no one worthy of worship besides God and there re- mains for them no other objective other than God. The status that belongs to the Abd a l, the status of the Qu t b and the status of the Ghauth, is this same one, to wholeheartedly have faith in the Kalimah هّٰللُّٰ َّ ا اَل ِ اَلَۤاِلٰه َ ا هّٰللُّٰ َّ ا اَل ِ اَلَۤاِلٰه َ ا [‘There is none worthy of worship except Allah’] and to act upon its true meaning’ ( Badr, vol. 6, nos. 1, 2, p. 11, dated 10 January 1907). 3. Wal i (Friend), Ghauth (Saint), Qu t b (pl. Aq ta b —Guiding Star), and Abd a l (Substitutes, i. e. vicegerents appointed for carrying out the will of God Almighty) are various designations used for Auliy a ’ull a h. [Publisher]