Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 508
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 10 508 self-reproaching self ]. Lawwamah is said of one who rebukes. Man commits a misdeed at some time but simultaneously his conscience reproaches him for having committed this evil and he becomes remorseful. This tendency is ingrained within human nature. Nevertheless, there are also some dispositions of the type that become so mired, on account of their foul con- dition and evil deeds, that their disposition or nature cannot, in fact, be considered as rightly inclined anymore. They fail to even feel this reproach. However, one who has a pure nature, is sensitive to this feeling and sometimes the same self-rebuke makes him rectify his course and leads him to salvation, albeit this state is not one that can be relied upon. There is a third condition of the self, which has been termed as mutma’innah [(the soul) at peace]. It is attained by man when he has overcome the challenges of nafs-e-ammarah and then of nafs-e-lawwamah and has achieved victory in this battle. Nafs-e-ammarah is the enemy of man, and is the enemy hidden in his own home. Lawwamah also intends to mount an attack off and on, but it desists. As opposed to these two condi- tions, when man progresses to the stage of nafs-e-mutma’innah [the soul at peace] it is as if his enemy has come under his sway and he has achieved a clear victory over it and a truce has been agreed to. The ultimate limit of human progress and the zenith of life for a man is to attain the state of mutma’innah [at peace]. This is the state where his pleasure becomes the pleasure of God and his displeasure becomes God’s displeasure; his will is the will of God and he speaks when God calls him to speak and he walks when God makes him walk. All his deeds and all his activity and inactivity are executed not by him, but are carried out by God. A kind of death descends upon the earlier condition