Malfuzat - Volume VIII — Page 269
27 December 1905 269 weaknesses and infirmities, someone would believe that He was God. Certainly not. Shirk [associating partners with God] began from a woman, and its foundation was laid by a woman—that is, from Eve— who abandoned the command of God Almighty and obeyed the command of Satan. And the supporters of this great shirk — that is, Christianity—are also women. In fact, Christianity is a religion that human nature shuns from afar and can never accept. If there were no intervening worldly interests, a very large group of Christians would today become Muslims. Some of the Christians had remained covert Muslims and had con- cealed their Islam, but at the time of their death, they made a will and disclosed [their belief in] Islam. There were highly prominent office-holders among these people. They hid [their belief in] Islam in their life owing to the love of the world, but in the end, they had to reveal it. I see that Islam has made its way into these hearts and is now progressing. The love of the world has made people draw a veil over themselves. In short, this love of the world is also the cause of inter- nal division among Muslims because if only the pleasure of Allah the Exalted had come first, it would have been easy to understand that the principles of such and such a sect are more straightforward, and they would have accepted them and become one. Now, when this disorder is being created because of the love of the world, how can such people be called Muslims when they are not following in the footsteps of the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him? Allah, the Exalted, had said: 1 ْلُق ْنِا ْمُتْنُك َنْوُّبِحُت َهّٰللا ْيِنْوُعِبَّتاَف۠ ُمُكْبِبْحُي ُهّٰللا ْلُق ْنِا ْمُتْنُك َنْوُّبِحُت َهّٰللا ْيِنْوُعِبَّتاَف۠ ُمُكْبِبْحُي ُهّٰللا 1. S u rah A l-e-‘Imr a n, 3:32 [Publisher]