Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 57
27 December 1907 57 when man does something, his action elicits a natural reaction from God Almighty, like the man who had unfortunately shut all four doors. The act of God in response to it was that the place became all dark. Making it dark would be considered the wrath of God. Do not take God’s wrath to be like the wrath of a human being because God is God and a man is a man. God does not work in the same way human beings do. God listens but does He need air to hear like a human? Is His hearing similar to a human where hearing is clearer on the side that the wind is blowing from? Or the eyesight—a human being cannot see unless there is light from the sun, the moon, or a lamp—is God also dependent on light [to be able to see]? Thus, to be able to see something for a man is different from God. The under- standing of its true nature should be consigned to God. 1 The criticism that the Aryas etc. have about God being called wrathful in the Holy Quran—it is an obvious error on their part. They should have checked other references in the Holy Quran. It is clearly written there that: 2 ْۤيِباَذَع ُبْيِصُا ٖهِب ْنَم ُءٓاَشَا١ۚ َو ْيِتَمْحَر َو ْتَعِس َّلُك ٍءْيَش ْۤيِباَذَع ُبْيِصُا ٖهِب ْنَم ُءٓاَشَا١ۚ َو ْيِتَمْحَر َو ْتَعِس َّلُك ٍءْيَش God’s mercy encompasses everything. Their difficulty is that they do not believe in the mercy of God in the first place. According to their religious doctrine, even if someone manages 1. From Badr: God’s wrath and God’s mercy are unique as is His hearing and seeing. One should believe it. And it behoves a believer to consign the un- derstanding of its true nature to God ( Badr, vol. 7, no. 1, p. 7, dated 9 January 1908). 2. I will inflict My punishment on whom I will; but My mercy encompasses all things ( S u rah al-‘Ar a f, 7:157). [Publisher]