Malfuzat - Volume VIII — Page 32
Malf uza t - English translation of Urdu Volume 8 32 police officer comes with an order from the government, the one who disobeys him is declared a criminal and punished. If this is the case with illusory mundane rulers, then how great a violation would it be of the commands of Almighty Allah to dishonour and disrespect the one who comes from A h kamul- Ha kim i n [i. e. God—the Greatest of all rulers]? God Almighty is very jealous [in point of love or honour]. In accordance with the urgency of the occasion, He sent a man at the head of the corrupt century at the exact time of need that he might call the people to guidance. It is a great sin to trample all His prudent measures underfoot. Did the Jewish people not observe prayer? A Jew from Bombay wrote to me that their God is the same God of the Muslims, and the attributes mentioned in the Holy Quran are the very attributes in which they believe. This belief of the Jews has been in place for thirteen hundred years through today, but in spite of this belief, they were called swine and apes only for the reason that they did not accept the Noble Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. The intellect of man cannot match the prudence of God. What is a man that he should claim to have a greater under- standing than Divine prudence? God’s prudence is evident and manifest at this time. In the early days of Islam, a hue and cry would be raised even if a single person became an apostate. Now Islam has been trampled upon so much that there are 100,000 apostates present. Islam, the pure and holy religion, has been attacked to such a degree that hundreds of thousands of books are published chock-full of abuses against the Holy Prophet; some magazines are printed in the tens of millions. If everything published against Islam were amassed in one place, it would make a huge mountain. The plight of the Muslims is as if no life pulses within them and they have all died without exception. If even God remained silent during