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SERMON 50

Admixture of right and wrong

The basis of the occurrence of
evils are those desires which are acted upon and the orders that
are innovated. They are against the Book of Allah. People
co-operate with each other about them even though it is against
the Religion of Allah. If wrong had been pure and unmixed it would
not be hidden from those who are in search of it. And if right had
been pure without admixture of wrong those who bear hatred towards
it would have been silenced. What is, however, done is that
something is taken from here and something from there and the two
are mixed! At this stage Satan overpowers his friends and they
alone escape for whom virtue has been apportioned by Allah from
before.