The Reality of Khilafah — Page 87
Chapter Two—About the Mahdi 87 of the liars. Woe unto the impostors who do not desist from lying but grow in their falsehood with every passing day and moment. It is enough proof of your dishonesty that you believe blindly everything that reaches your ears. You do not purify your heart of ignorance and blindness and instead pluck the flowers that grow in filth, like those engrossed in their carnal passion and lovers of mischief. You do not seek that which is good and pure, as pure and good people do. You have learned that using the word ‘living’ for the dead and the word ‘life’ for death is established in the Quranic text and jurisprudence. This is not unknown to the scholars who recite the Quran with deliberation and knock on its door so that it may be opened for them. This is the clear truth that illuminates for you the night that had become so pitch dark for some scholars that they ended up going astray after having found the right path. You may now say that you have understood the reality of ‘life’ like the discerning, but want to know the precise meaning of nuz u l [descent] that can reassure the hearts of the seekers. Know, then, that this term is widely used in the Quran. Allah has said in various places of the Holy Book that every beauty and splen- dour descends from Heaven, and it is in Heaven that everything attains perfection by His command. The earth can only receive that which Heaven sends down, and dispositions only acquire the complexion that is bestowed by Heaven. Those who benefit from it are the fortunate ones, while those who do not are the unfortu- nate and deprived ones. Soon, however, the fortunate and the unfortunate start to resemble one another, and they become more alike with each passing day until they are thought to be one. This is the way of