Malfuzat - Volume VIII — Page 309
29 December 1905 309 comes strength. If one was not involved in thinking ill of God, strength would arise and a zeal and restlessness would develop to comply with His commandments. Therefore, mistrust is the root of all evil. Those who believe in the Book of God Almighty in good faith can do everything. If one believes in the abilities of Allah the Exalted, then what is impossible? Many people ask how can such and such a sin be avoided. These things arise for the same reason that there is not complete faith in the powers and capabilities of Allah the Exalted. Since they are strangers to this path, such doubts tend to arise in their minds, but I assure you that the God who created man from sperm can and does grant all kinds of pure changes to that man. Yes, indeed, but what is needed is a heart that seeks. The Zanjabil i State Returning again to the original intent, I affirm that man’s per- fection does not lie only in abandoning evils because others share in this even to the extent that animals can partake of this in certain aspects. Rather, a person can become perfectly virtuous only when he abandons not only evil deeds, but also takes the doing of good deeds to a level of perfection. So when he abandons evil, Allah the Exalted gives him to drink of the sherbet with camphor through which it is understood that the passions and impulses that arose for evil become cold, and the components of evil are suppressed. After that, he is given another sherbet to drink, which—in the terminology of the Holy Quran—is a sherbet of ginger, as is said: