Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 389
24 September 1905 389 beggar lay down there and then and said, ِ ِہللا ُ ل ْ َو ُ رَس ٌ د َ م َ ح ُ م ُ ِہللا اَلَ ِِإ َ ه ٰ ل ِإِ اَلَآ [‘There is no one worthy of worship except Allah, Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah’] and with that he b reathed his last. When Far i d-ud-D i n saw this condition of his, he was deeply moved. At that very moment he gave away the entire shop and spent his entire life in the remembrance of God. This is preparedness. There are no regrets when you are prepared. If wavering back and forth, then there is sorrow and regret. Sufis and Maulaw i s The Promised Messiah as said: A study of the books of the Sufis shows that the thought of death weighed heavy on them, but those who were known as maulaw i s have generally remained [spiritually] blind. There are very few, and they too, were ascetics, who managed to avoid this [blinding] veil. In general, they have stayed away from Sufis and continued to issue fatwas [edicts] of disbelief against such pious people who had cut themselves off from the world. Sufis are just like someone who remains ready to die at every moment. It is refreshing to read their books. They have the fra- grance of godliness signifying that they were men of experience and not just men of scholarship. If a person possesses true discernment, then he can under- stand these things. The book Fut uh -ul-Ghaib by Syed ‘Abdul- Q a dir Jil a n i , may Allah have mercy on him, is an exceptionally brilliant book. I have read it many times. It is free from innova- tions. Some books of Sufis are of a kind that innovations have also found their way into them, but this book is exceedingly impressive.