Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 56
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 10 56 to God, “O Allah! Do not cause us to be counted among those who were inflicted with Your wrath in this life, nor cause us to walk on the path of those who deviated from the right path. ”’ What God Almighty has stated here is not by way of a story or tale. He was well aware that just as the earlier nations had committed foul deeds and had exceeded all bounds in rejec- tion and transgression against the Prophets, a time would come upon the Muslims when they would exceed all bounds in sin and iniquity, and they would perpetrate the very things that had incited the wrath of God Almighty against those earlier nations, and the wrath of God would thereby descend upon them as well. The commentators of the Holy Quran and the sayings of the Holy Prophet s as , have taken maghzub [ ِ مَغْضُوْب ِ مَغْضُوْب —those who incurred God’s wrath] to be the Jews. The Jews had jeered and mocked the Prophets of God many times. They had distressed Jesus, peace be upon him, in particular and had exhibited much cheek and impertinence to him. The ultimate result was that God’s wrath struck them in this very world. Truth about the Wrath of God Almighty No one should misconstrue here the wrath of God to mean that (God forbid) God becomes irritated. Rather, it means that man falls away from the Most Holy and Pure God on account of his own sins. Alternatively, it may be understood by the example of a man who is sitting in a room which has four doors—if he opens those doors, the radiance and the light of the sun will keep coming in, but if he shuts all the doors, the entry of the light will cease as a consequence. In short, it is absolutely true that it is the Divine norm that