Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 76
76 MALFŪZĀT - ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF URDU VOLUME 9 [the heart] is not cleansed-what is that uproar? It is verily sin, iniquity, and the love of the world. Certainly, it is another issue to state something in the manner of a thief,¹ but those who speak with the Rūbul-Qudus [Spirit of Holiness], utter nothing without taqwā. Instil this firmly in your minds that taqwā is the key to all religious knowledge. Man cannot attain it without taqwā as God Almighty has stated, الم ذَلِكَ الْكِتَبُ لَا رَيْبَ فِيهِ هُدًى لِلْمُتَّقِينَ 20 This Book guides those who practice taqwā, and who are they? الَّذِينَ يُؤْمِنُونَ بِالْغَيْبِ 3 Those who believe in the unseen; meaning, that God is not yet visible. And then they make their Prayer stand; meaning, full enjoyment and passion does not yet develop in Prayer; never- theless, they still offer Prayer in a state of disengagement, dis- interest, and distractions. Furthermore, they spend somewhat out of whatsoever We have given them, and they believe in all that has been revealed to you [the Holy Prophetsas], or that was revealed before you. These are the initial stages and characteristics of a muttaqi [righteous person]. As I had related once before, here appar- ently the objection can be raised that when they believe in God, 1. From Badr: 'Almighty Allah has forbidden that someone may, together with sin, iniquity and mischief, also attain religious knowledge. Indeed yes, if, like a thief, someone takes another's statement and gives expression to it, then that is stolen property. But those words that come with the support of Rūhul- Qudus cannot be attained without taqwā. Taqwā is the key to all religious knowledge. (Badr, vol. 6, no. 3, p. 12, dated 17 January 1907) 2. Sūrah al-Baqarah, 2:2-3 [Publisher] 3. Sūrah al-Baqarah, 2:4 [Publisher]