Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 385
14 SEPTEMBER 1907 قَالَ آمَنْتُ أَنَّهُ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا الَّذِي آمَنَتْ بِهِ بَنُوا إِسْرَائِيلَ وَ أَنَا مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ ) He gained only this much benefit from this that God said that He would protect his body, but his soul would not be saved, and then eventually God brought his body to shore. He was a man of a small stature. In short, when man advances towards sin and disobedience, the case is that of: لَا يَسْتَأْخِرُونَ سَاعَةً وَلَا يَسْتَقْدِمُونَ 2 When the appointed hour of calamity strikes, it does not waver. Man ought to establish a relationship with God in advance but: که زیر سلسله رفتن طریق عیاری است خیال زلف تو بستن نه کار خامان است To romanticise about your locks is not for men faint of heart, For to come under the shade of your locks requires a crafty plan. It is indeed the case that only the followers of the Prophets are such that they do not move at all except as a Jamāʻat. The peo- ple who fall into impiety and immorality during the lives of Prophets and do not care about the consequences and attack the righteous, God Almighty says about such people: وَلَا يَخَافُ عُقْبُهَا 385 1. He said, I believe that there is no God but He in Whom the children of Israel believe, and I am of those who submit to Him' (Sūrah Yūnus, 10:91). [Publisher] 2. They cannot remain behind a single moment, nor can they get ahead of it (Surah al-A'raf, 7:35). [Publisher] 3. And He cared not for the consequences thereof (Sūrah ash-Shams, 91:16). [Publisher]