Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 426
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 7 426 The Manifestations, Light and Blessings of the House of the Ka‘bah are Not Visible to the Physical Eyes In the same manner, some people go to Hajj. At that time there is great fervour and sincerity in their heart, but it has often been seen that the zeal and warmth with which they go, they do not return with that same zeal and sincerity. Rather, when they come back, they often become worse than before. ابرادت رنتف اتس لہس ابرادت آدمن اتس لکشم [It is easy to go with veneration, But it is hard to come back with veneration. ] Upon return, there is no significant change for the better in their morals; rather, that change becomes a change for the worse. Before they go, they think that there will be a magnif- icent manifestation of light in the Ka‘bah and blessings and light will be pouring forth therefrom and there will be a popu- lation of angels there, but when they go there, what they see is that the Ka‘bah—which they have pictured in their mind and imagination to be something else—is just a building and some of the people who live in its neighbourhood are criminals as well; they also engage in fights and disputes, and many of them are so corrupt that some weak people of crude understanding start to waver [in their faith] by seeing them. Seeing such people, they draw the conclusion that this is the condition of the entire population there and all the Arabs are like that. And in this way, many kinds of doubts arise in their hearts because they do not see the manifestation of light and blessings that they had devised on their own, nor do they find the population of angels. The fact is that such people are themselves weak and immature. That is why they stumble. It is their own fault that they think so. What is the fault