Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 454
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 10 454 been sending Reformers from time to time in every age for the [spiritual] reformation of every nation. As it is mentioned in the Holy Quran: 1 َو ْنِا ْنِّم ٍةَّمُا اَّلِا اَلَخ اَهْيِف ٌرْيِذَن َو ْنِا ْنِّم ٍةَّمُا اَّلِا اَلَخ اَهْيِف ٌرْيِذَن God Almighty is the God of the entire world. He has no [spe- cial] affiliation with any particular nation. The various heavenly books that have been revealed at various times have no contradiction among them in essence because they are the befitting commands for reformation when the world completely deteriorates from a practical perspective and sin and iniquity, thievery, wickedness, etc. abound; people are overcome by their sensual lusts, straying far from purity; and, even in the manner of belief, people incline towards idol worship, abandoning God. So then the jealousy of God, who is the physical and spiritual Sustainer of man, demands that someone be raised to remedy the origins of evil and this type of Reformer is not outside the laws of Divine power. Just as the wheat harvested during the times of Adam as or the previous Prophets cannot be the reason for our life [today], and the water that was for previous generations cannot quench our thirst, in the same manner from a spiritual sense we also need fresh and invigorating spiritual food and water. This is the tradition of Allah that just as He nourishes and nurtures the physical realm, as the foregone nourishment is inef- fectual [for the present], the same applies to the state of the spiritual realm, and both systems—physical and spiritual— operate side by side. Should someone deny [the existence of ] God, then there is a different line of argumentation; [but] it 1. And there is no people to whom a Warner has not been sent ( S u rah F at ir, 35:25). [Publisher]