Tadhkirah — Page 106
106 1883 After that come the following revealed sentences: [Arabic] When it is said to them: Believe as other people have believed, they say: ‘Shall we believe as the foolish have believed?’ Beware! it is surely they that are foolish, but they do not know. They love that you should make compromises. Say: O ye disbelievers, I worship not that which you worship. You were told to revert to Allah but you do not come back. You were admonished to overpower your sinful inclinations but you do not overpower them. Do you ask for any recompense for which they feel encumbered and imagine that acceptance of truth is a heavy burden? Nay! They have been given the truth without anything in return, and still they hate the truth. Holy is Allah and far above the faults that they attribute to Him. Do these people think that by merely making a verbal profession of faith they would be left alone without a trial? They long for praise for what they have not done. There is nothing that is hidden from Allah. As long as Allah does not reform something, no reform can take place. Whosoever is repelled by Allah, none can draw him back.