Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 178
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 10 178 estimation of God Almighty. I have seen many Hindus who deceive, defraud, lie, and are consumed by the love of this world and yet, on the other hand, keep saying with their tongue that the world is transient and fleeting. Become My True Community Therefore, you should become such that the objectives of God Almighty should become your objectives. Your pleasure should lie in His pleasure alone. You should surrender everything to Him; you should possess nothing. Purification means exactly this, that all opposition to God Almighty should be eliminated from the heart, both in beliefs and actions. God Almighty does not help anyone until He does not observe for Himself that his aim and his pleasure is not completely subservient to His own aim and pleasure. I am never pleased just with the large numbers of [people belonging to] my Jama’at [Community]. At present this num- ber is 400,000 or even greater but the true Jama’at does not come into being by people merely taking the oath of allegiance at my hand. Rather, only such people deserve to be called the Jama’at when they are acting upon the real objectives of enter- ing into the Bai’at —when a pious change has truly taken place in them, their lives have become totally cleansed of the filth of sin; when having escaped from the clutches of carnal desires and of Satan, they have become absorbed in seeking the pleas- ure of God Almighty, they discharge the rights of God and the rights of His servants in a comprehensive fashion with an open heart, and a passion develops in them for their faith and for its propagation; when they become devoted to God having anni- hilated their own desires, passions, and ambitions. God Almighty says that you are all misguided except the