The Ocean of Light — Page 78
78 example is like that of a person who spent his entire life grieving because he had no son. He visited fakirs and fortune tellers seeking a solution through both medicine and prayer to have a son. But when, through the Grace of Allah, his wife became pregnant and that which he had sought was about to come to fruition, he sought to abort the foetus before it could be delivered. Wanting to abort the baby because of some desires that he had, and then destroying the baby like the shattering of glass into pieces. The truth is—and the truth I speak—that this is the example of those who seek to hurt me with their animosity. They tread difficult paths and refuse to tread the easiest and well- established path of cognition, even though they had previously been in search of it and used to pray to God like one thirsting for water. Then, upon my advent in keeping with God’s destiny, their faces grew dark. There were many who used to cry in their prayers like a woman in labour, such that their cries reached the