The Mirror of the Excellences of Islam — Page 428
AT-TABLIGH-TO HEIRS OF PIRS, DEVOTEES, FAKĪRS, ASCETICS, & SŪFĪS 427 leader, guide, and director of us Muslims. Anyone who is bereft of its knowledge faces death and destruction at every step. A person who has not been blessed and favoured by God with the knowledge of His Holy Word is a deprived being who cannot possibly be the recipient of any other blessing. Allah Himself says that whomsoever I grant true virtue, is granted the knowledge of the Quran, and whoever has been granted the knowledge of the Holy Quran has acquired something that cannot be matched by anything else. I trust that every true Muslim will agree with this statement of mine. The exception of the one who has a hidden idol under his sleeve and is deprived of true love and devotion for the Holy Quran. Now I start the Arabic letter at the next page.