The Victory of Islam — Page 38
38 Almighty takes hold of anew. There are also very many whom God Almighty has conferred upon me for eternity and they are the flourishing branches of the tree of my being. I will—God will - ing—pen their account at some other time. Here I would also like to dispel the misconception held by some of those people who are wealthy and deem themselves very generous and devoted to the cause of the Faith, yet who entirely refuse to spend their wealth at the opportune time, saying: Had we lived during the time of a truthful man supported by Allah who had come from God Almighty to strengthen the Faith, then we would have been so inclined to support him that we would have even sacrificed our lives in his path, but what can we do when the business of deception and deceit rages all around? Nevertheless—O people!—let it be clear to you that a man has been sent to strengthen the Faith, but you failed to recognize him. He is in your midst and he is the very one who is addressing you now, but thick veils are upon your eyes. If your hearts are in search of truth, then it is very easy to test the man who claims to converse with God Almighty. Come to him. Stay in his company for two or three weeks so that—if God Almighty so wills—you personally witness a share of the shower of blessings raining upon him and the light of divine revelation descending upon him. Only the one who seeks shall find. Only for the one who knocks is it opened. If you shut your eyes and hide yourself in a dark room yet ask, ‘Where is the sun?,’ then this complaint of yours is absurd. O ignorant one! Open the door to your room and lift the veil from your eyes so that not only does the sun become visible to you, but so that its light may also illuminate you. Some assert that simply establishing societies and opening