The Supreme Plan for the Universal Regeneration of Islam — Page 8
[ 8 ] position. The lowest degree is that of Pharaoh’s wife, and for anyone who accepts the Holy Prophet sa , no lower degree is conceivable. A great tyrant, an unbridled despot of a great realm happened to be her husband. He was so arrogant and self-conceited that he had the audacity to challenge the God of Heavens Himself. He used to order H aman to build a lofty watch-tower that he might ascend it to see the God with whom Moses as was in communion. A weak and feeble woman, powerless and without authority, lived as a wife under such a disdainful despot. According to the Holy Qur’an, despite this state of affairs, she maintained her faith. She constantly wept before her Lord in humble supplication that He might protect her against this unjust tyrant and never allow the despot to triumph over her faith. What a sublime simile is this! But in the eyes of those who are devoid of inner Divine knowledge and ignorant of the Qur’anic idiom, this lofty parable has become a subject of mockery. It is a sublime similitude; but the Holy Qur’an says that this resplendent example comes true in the case of the lowest of the lowly among the devout servants of Muhammad sa. It does not apply to those of superb status because, in the ummah of the Holy Prophet sa , those who hold a comparatively inferior spiritual status and are placed in a lower degree; even they are men of such sterling quality, eminence and glory that they never forsake their faith in the face of the most tyrannical oppressors. Those