Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 315
13 August 1905 315 illall a h— There is no one worthy of worship except Allah] is excellent, and I also believe it. I also believe in the attributes of God Almighty and the powers of Allah the Exalted, and like you, we also point out the flaws of transmigration and refute it. Despite these things, he denies the prophethood of the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. So, can this nominal extent of his statements be worthy of renown? Absolutely not, for he failed to mention the highest calibre of Islam’s excellence. The sure and living proof of the existence of Allah the Exalted was the ris a lat [messengership] of the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. When they do not believe this, it becomes clear that everything else is just imaginary. The condition of our opposing scholars is simi- lar. They do not possess what I wish to give the world and are heedless of it. And that is that a person cannot prevail over his nafs-e-amm a rah [self that incites to evil] until he understands the Being of Allah the Exalted and hears the sound ْد َو ُ ج ْ َو َ م ْ ل َا ا ن َ ا [‘I am present’]. This was the authentic and original purpose of Islam which has now disappeared. It is for the revival of this that I have been sent. It must be remembered that the extent to which one fears someone or is attracted to someone in this world results from cognisance. Look! If someone knows that there is a snake in a hole, he would never put his hand into it. Indeed, he would not even enter that house at night. Similarly, if it is known that there is a treasure hidden here, one would be drawn towards it. If a person thinks an object in the dark is a goat, he will continue standing next to it so long as he believes it to be a goat, but once he perceives it to be a lion, he would be incapable of staying there. It is clearly understood from this that the love or fear of something develops from cognisance. Everyone knows that no man can deliberately consume poison. Even if arsenic is