Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 24
24 MALFUZAT - ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF URDU VOLUME 7 is for the spiritual reward. So, if you are [destined] to remain blind forever, for what, then, are you asking? This supplication in Sūrah al-Fatihah is such a comprehensive and wonderful prayer that no earlier Prophet ever taught it. So, if these words are just mere words, and God is not going to accept them, then why did God teach us such words? If you are never going to be granted that station, why do we waste our time five times a day? There is no miserliness in the Being of God, nor do Prophets come so that they may be worshipped; instead, they come to teach people that those who follow their path will come under their shadow, as He has said: إِن كُنتُمْ تُحِبُّونَ اللَّهَ فَاتَّبِعُونِي يُحْبِبْكُمُ اللهُ Meaning that, by following me, you will become the beloved of God. All these honours were bestowed upon the Holy Prophet because he was the beloved. But if someone else becomes the beloved, would he get nothing at all? If Islam is such a religion, then there will be a strong aversion to this kind of Islam; how- ever, Islam is certainly not such a religion. The Holy Prophet has brought forth such a table [of abundant provision] that you may take whatever you wish. He neither brought worldly wealth nor did he come as a banker. He brought the wealth of God, and he himself was its Qāsim [Distributor]. So, if he did not intend to distribute that wealth, then did he take that treas- ure back? But the truth is, how can a blind man who does not have light claim that I have light and can distribute it? Look, Allah the Exalted says: مَنْ كَانَ فِي هَذِهِ اعْلَى فَهُوَ فِي الْآخِرَةِ أَعْلَى وَأَضَلُّ سَبِيلًا 1. Sūrah Al-e-Imran, 3:32 [Publisher] 2. But whoso is blind in this world will be blind in the Hereafter, and even more astray from the way (Sūrah Bani Isrā'īl, 17:73). [Publisher]