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SERMON 107
It is one of the sermons about the
vicissitudes of time
Praise be to Allah Who is Manifest before His
creation because of themselves. Who is apparent to their hearts because of clear proof;
Who created without meditating, since meditating does not befit except one who has
thinking organs while He has no thinking organ in Himself. His knowledge has split forth
the inside of unknown secrets and covered the bottom of deep beliefs.
A part of the same sermon about the
Holy Prophet
Allah chose him from the lineal tree of prophets,
from the flame of light, from the forehead of greatness, from the best part of the valley
of al-Bat'ha', from the lamps for darkness, and from the sources of wisdom.
A part of the same sermon
The Prophet was like a roaming physician who has set
ready his ointments and heated his instruments. He uses them wherever the need arises for
curing blind hearts, deaf ears, and dumb tongues. He followed with his medicines the spots
of negligence and places of perplexity.
Blaming Muslims
They (people) did not take light from the lights of
his wisdom nor did they produce flame from the flint of sparkling knowledge . So in this
matter they are like grazing cattle and hard stones. Nevertheless, hidden things have
appeared for those who perceive, the face of right has become clear for the wanderer, the
approaching moment has raised the veil from its face and signs have appeared for those who
search for them.
What is the matter with me! I see you just bodies
without spirits and spirits without bodies, devotees without good, traders without
profits, wakeful but sleeping, present but unseen, seeing but blind, hearing but deaf and
speaking but dumb.
I notice that misguidance has stood on its centre
and spread (all round) through its off-shoots. It weighs you with its weights and confuses
you with its measures. Its leader is an out-cast from the community. He persists on
misguidance. So on that day none from among you would remain except as the sediment in a
cooking pot or the dust left after dusting a bundle. It would scrape you as leather is
scraped, and trample you as harvest is trampled, and pick out the believer as a bird picks
out a big grain from the thin grain.
Where are these ways taking you, gloom misleading
you, and falsehoods deceiving you? Whence are you brought and where are you driven? For
every period there is a written document and everyone who is absent has to return. So
listen to your godly leader and keep your hearts present. If he speaks to you be wakeful.
The forerunner must speak truth to his people, should keep his wits together and maintain
presence of mind. He has clarified to you the matter as the stitch-hole is cleared, and
scraped it as the gum is scraped (from the twigs).
Nevertheless, now the wrong has set itself on its
places and ignorance has ridden on its riding beasts. Unruliness has increased while the
call for virtue is suppressed. Time has pounced upon like a devouring carnivore, and wrong
is shouting like a camel after remaining silent. People have become brothers over
ill-doings. have forsaken religion, are united in speaking lie but bear mutual hatred in
the matter of truth.
When such is the case, the son would be a source of
anger (instead of coolness of the eye to parents) and rain the cause of heat, the wicked
would abound and the virtuous would diminish. The people of this time would be wolves, its
rulers beasts, the middle class men gluttons and the poor (almost) dead. Truth would go
down, falsehood would overflow, affection would be claimed with tongues but people would
be quarrelsome at heart. Adultery would be the key to lineage while chastity would be rare
and Islam would be worn overturned like the skin.
.Forward to Sermon 108.Back to Sermon 106.
