The Mirror of the Excellences of Islam — Page 451
450 Α'ΙΝΑ-Ε-ΚΑMĀLĀT-E-ISLAM-DAFI UL-WASĀWIS while you remain sleeping. I see innovations in all of your words, deeds, and conduct-in the shrines that you erect, in the clothes that you dye, in the verses that you sing aloud, in the gait with which you walk, in the narrations that you relate proudly and thereby behave arrogantly, in your long or trimmed beards, and in the birds with which you prey. What has happened to you, for you neither shed tears upon your negligence nor do you regret it? What has happened to you that you do not fear Allah, are not awed by His glory, and your hearts do not burn for His love? You have forgotten the day when you shall be returned to Allah. I see depravity in the eyes that you stretch towards the world. You, with stiff necks and eyes wide open, set your sights like a hawk ready to pounce on carrion. I also see wickedness in the tongues that you sharpen, raising them against brothers, swiftly flicking them like a venomous snake. I also find your opinions to be faulty and full of errors, and-being confused you fail to differentiate between the wise and the foolish. You abuse and speak ill of people on mere assump- tions. You brag of your piety but at the moment of confrontation, you turn your backs defeated, without feeling any humiliation; rather you arrogantly compete with each other about your proclaimed blessings. I know for certain that you are merely a lifeless entity and the divine spirit has never come even close to you, and that you are a dead people. If you stand on something true as you claim, then what has held you back from coming forth and marching with armies to defeat me in the battlefield, to contest me for a horse race in the arena, to challenge me to steed-mounted combat? Then, if you come forth, you will find my action against you faster than even a blink of an eye. Allah shall humil- iate you with a painful humiliation and you shall be defeated. Surely, I have come to glorify the message of Islam while you oppose it; I desire to revive the religion of Allah, while you resist it. Do you not see that Islam has become weak and helpless again, that what has befallen it is something that no observer has ever observed, nor any narrator has ever narrated? What has happened to you that you neither tremble on account of it nor feel its pain? What has happened to you that you neither get jealous for your honour nor become impassioned?