Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 93
29 December 1904 93 done with this spirit and brought to this natural level, because when something goes on progressing and reaches its natural level of perfection, then it becomes perfect. 1 Remember that God Almighty loves goodness very much and desires compassion for His creatures. If He had liked evil, He would have encouraged evil, but the glory of Allah the Exalted is free from that. ( ُ َانُه ِش ی ٰ َال ٰع َ سُبْحَانَه ُ ت ُ َانُه ِش ی ٰ َال ٰع َ سُبْحَانَه ُ ت )—[Glory be to Him, the Most High, with all His Magnificence. ] The Holy Prophet, may Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon Him, was the Embodiment of Mercy When some people hostile to the truth hear such teachings, if nothing else, they object that if there was compassion in Islam, why did the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, fight battles? Those ignorant people do not know that the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, fought the wars that he did after suffering perilously for 13 years and even then, only in self-defence. For 13 years, he bore all manner of suffering at the hands of his enemies. Muslim men and women were martyred. Finally, when he went to Madinah and even there those oppressors did not leave him alone, God Almighty ordered the oppressed people to fight, and that too, to save the people from the wickedness of 1. From al-Badr : ‘Showing compassion for humanity out of a natural innate zeal is called ی ٰ َب ْ ر ُ ق ْ ل ِي ا ذ ِئِ آ َْتَ ی ِ ا ی ٰ َب ْ ر ُ ق ْ ل ِي ا ذ ِئِ آ َْتَ ی ِ ا — i t a ’e-dhil-qurb a [kindness like unto kindred], and by this arrangement, it is the intention of God Almighty that if you want to be completely virtuous, then bring your virtues to the level of kindness like unto kindred; that is to say, to the level of an innate natural act. So long as some- thing does not advance to reach this innate natural stage, it fails to attain the status of perfection’ ( Al-Badr, vol. 4, no. 2, p. 4, dated 10 January 1905).