Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 4
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 10 4 books and learn the correct facts. Worldly people who are preoccupied with their mundane affairs, have no time to pay attention to religious matters, yet on account of the hostility, they too are afforded an opportunity to reflect and ponder for themselves. And as a result of their hue and cry, other people are drawn in this direction, intrigued to seek out the truth of the matter. Many people wrote to me recounting the names of Maulawi Muhammad Husain [of Batala] or Maulawi Sana Ullah [of Amritsar] etc. , that upon reading their belligerent writings, it occurred to them to obtain and peruse my writings as well. And when they read my books, they found them overflowing with spirituality, and the truth became clear to them. When one pays attention, his inherent sense of equity indicts him. Where a storm of blazing opposition emerges, therein a jama’at [a group of people] comes into existence. Before the advent of a Prophet, the good and the bad all act like they are brethren, but after the advent of a Prophet, a distinc- tion appears between them. The auspicious are separated from the wretched. If the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, had not proclaimed to the opponents: 1 ْمُكَّنِا َو اَم َنْوُدُبْعَت ْنِم ِنْوُد ِهّٰللا ُبَصَح َمَّنَهَج ْمُكَّنِا َو اَم َنْوُدُبْعَت ْنِم ِنْوُد ِهّٰللا ُبَصَح َمَّنَهَج Meaning, ‘You and the gods you worship are all deserving of Hell’, the disbelievers would not have mounted such an oppo- sition. But they were incensed upon hearing such statements about their gods. Most of the opposition occurred in the Punjab and this is precisely where most people have joined the Jama’at 1. S u rah al-Anbiy a ’, 21:99 [Publisher]