Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din

“ Rabbul Alimin the Creator, the Provider, the Sustainer, and the Upbringer of all the worlds, of all the time and ages, and of all the races and nations, Whose bounties and gifts makes no distinction between race and race and come to every one ; Who in His dispensation acts as Rahman, the Beneficent Lord, whose benevolence looks to the needs of every one, even before the need comes into existence. Does not every atom in the universe bear eloquent testimony to these His two grand attributes ? ”

“ Those who think otherwise are deluded, and what they take for God in some cases is only evolved humanity. Divinity transcends even the limits of metaphor and similes leave apart its actual realization. And even these holy precincts I am speaking about are not opened to the unworthy. The only qualification which enables us to reach Divine borders is to walk humbly with God on the lines of benevolence and charity. Try to be true worshippers of Rabb, Rahmdn, Rahim, and Malik to worship God, as Count Tolstoi says, is to desire what God desires, and He desires universal welfare. ”

“ Whatever may be the motive of each nation at the back, but under the emergencies of the moment, more than half the world on one side, and the rest on the other, have sufficiently shown the capability of man to extend his sympathy and fellow-feeling to those belonging to other races, colours, and countries, and thus to some extent man is walking humbly with the Lord in his attributes as Rabb, Rahman, Rahim, and Mdlik. These virtues one may style as virtues that come out of necessity, but try to cultivate them, and make a permanent asset of them for humanity. ”

“ One fails even to imagine the horror of that cruel vandalism which knows no distinction between the military and the civilian, which makes no distinction between the battlefield or the hospital whether on land or on sea, which demolishes even the houses of God, and brings those harmless souls to a sudden annihilation who on their penitent knees in a religious house are imploring the loving Father in Heaven to put an end to this manifestation of the devilry. ”

“ The present state of society, as the Premier said the other day, is a libel on Jesus ; I say it is a libel on God and all His prophets, including Jesus, In future, the Premier says, every country will be of every man, and the earnings of every one shall go to the need of others. Then the Kingdom of God, I say, will descend on earth, as it did in the days of Muhammad. Angels will hover on earth with their pinions of blessings on us. The earth will see its promised millennium, and we will receive our real heritage, viz. God with man. ”

“ Let your benevolence go to the need of every one gratuitously, without distinction of country, colour, and class, because so has been your Creator to you in His blessings, and the world would reach its millennium. His third attribute is " Rahim," Who out of His compassion comes with thousandfold reward for every action of man. Put one seed in the ground. You have tilled the ground and watered it properly, your labour cannot go beyond it. Wait, for a few months only, and the blessings of God come in the form of a hundred grains of corn for your one grain. ”

“ More human blood is said to have been shed in the name of religion by its self-motived votaries than in the name of any other human institution. Is it then surprising to find some advocates of materialism deprecating religion and calling it an institution of garbed cruelty and covered bloodshed, and therefore fit to be stamped out from the pale of humanity ? ”

“ I mean by peace the establishment of that comfort of body, mind, and soul which religions from God have come from time to time to substantiate on this planet of ours ; a peace which is synonymous with the Kingdom of God, and which has visited us from the days of the Prophets Moses, Jesus, and others, and which found its last shape in the concluding days of our Holy Prophet Muhammad peace be upon them all when all kinds of selfishness were negatived ; when people, inspired with a new sense of humanity, merged their individual consciousness into a cosmic one ”

“ May the Preserver and Sustainer of all humanity bring us a peace with such noble and high principles of conduct that may enable every man to claim liberty and freedom, as his birthright, and to consider every country as his motherland. ”

“ They spoke in their representative character as men. Each of them was Son of Man, and they showed the height of spirituality, which is accessible to every child of humanity. The world owes a great obligation to Muhammad, who extricated it from this gross ignorance when he made a world-wide announcement. " God says," he said, " When a man utterly submits himself to Me, I love him ; and when I love him I become his eyes with which he sees, his ears with which he hears, his tongue with which he talks, and his hands with which he holds, and his legs with which he walks." ”

“ Muhammad Peace be upon them all not reached the top-most rung of the ladder, on which these Masters were climbing, but from his exalted position he tells you all " And Basharun mislukum," I am only a man like you. You are all physiologically equal ; physical equality postulates spiritual equality, Jesus always styled himself as son of man ; what was achieved by him is open to every other son of man. It has been said of us that we are after the image of God, but image without a soul and spirit. ”

“ May God enable us to do so, and relieve the world from the calamity we have been drawn into through the sordid selfishness of man. Let us magnify our God and glorify Him in the words of our Prophet, and I ask my Muslim brethren to join me in saying, " Allaho Akbar, Allaho Akbar la ilaha Mallah Wallaho Akbar, Wallaho Akbar, Walillah helhamd" "God is great, God is great; there is no deity but Allah. God is great, God is great, and all praise and glory is due to Him". ”

“ Evil has been as old as humanity. How to deal with them? If they do not lead a godly life, should we keep silent and through these humanitarian principles, as one would say, provide to them a premium on license and wickedness ? ”

“ Justice, at least, not to one who will have to atone for others ; and mercy with compensation is no mercy, it is only business. Look at the innumerable gifts of God which encompass you all around, which are all undeserved and unmerited. Has He not shown His mercy, without compensation, that He needs it in the matter of remitting my sin ? ”

“ Every action which Nature takes for dismemberment of an organism is immediately followed by reconstruction. There is no absolute destruction. Decay and corruption in organization demands the break up of the frame, but this derangement is only for the rearrangement. Autumn comes not to destroy, but to release the trunks of the trees of the refuse and what is unnecessary and to prepare them for fresh life. ”

“ The Lord of the War with his progeny has come forward in the front to establish his fitness and to bring every one down to his domineering feet. No, theories like these propounded by earthly philosophers will certainly not bring any good to us. Religion, and only religion in its pristine purity, is our salvation ”

“ Had the wretched sordidness of man left him to walk humbly with His Lord in this aspect of His Godhood, there would have been no trouble arising from the question of capital and labour. Is not capital sucking the very blood of labour and trying to take his pound of flesh from the bleeding breast of the workman ? The capitalists should have been thankful to God through their actions. ”

“ The earth with all its resources, He has made open to all, but it is man who would riot allow his fellow-creatures to have an equal share in it with him. Is it not after all at the bottom of all human trouble ? Had man put his humble foot in the great footprints of God which leave their impressions in bold writs on every span of land, wars would have ended, bloodshed finished, and criminality in all its shades have gone into exile. ”

“ The simple and unambiguous words of the Master, which were the real gospel of peace, have been distorted and given a wrong interpretation to further war ends. Unfortunately -since the days of the Reformation the clerics have always enslaved the laity. But the Church is all the same everywhere, whether in the East or West. Religion more or less has all over the world been manipulated to help individual and political aims. The wolf in man has always tried to prowl about and pounce on the lamb in the garb of a shepherd. ”

“ Is not their own philosophy of life the chief cause of what we are suffering from in these terrible days? Is not the same superman of Nietzsche who would have his will executed regardless of consequences to others their ideal ? ”

“ No matter what may be the extent of our sor- didness, no matter how engrossed we may be in our selfish ends, but all of us do exert these morals every day, though of course within limited area We follow the attributes of Rabb, of Rahman, of Rahi'm, and of Malik. We are all or most of us blessed with families, we have children and babies ; do we not provide them with everything they need, do we not nourish them and sustain them ? Yes, we do ; and in a metaphorical sense we are Rabb of our own children. Do we not look to their needs sometimes years before those needs come into existence ? ”

“ He has not been called here as a judge Who, bound with hard and fast rules of the law, is unable to show mercy to a sinner without taking any compensation for the sin Who, in order to meet the ends of justice and to satisfy His merciful nature as well, looks for sacrifices and arranges vicarious atonements. ”

“ Is not an owner deeply interested in the preservation of his property ? Some features of the property He may not like. He will try to reclaim it, but in a way which may not destroy it, and this is what Nature all around bears witness to. ”

“ Have we not invested money in property, and in various other forms, to be used by our children when they will reach such and such age, and this all not in an obligatory way but gratuitously ? By doing so we have stepped in the footprints of Rahman. ”

“ These are different forms of punishment coming from the hands of God, and they arc quite characteristic of the Being whose interest in the creation is that of an owner in the thing owned. Do punish those who have violated the law, who are the spreaders of wickedness and sin. ”

“ You are quite capable of showing these Divine morals in your mode of life. They come from a Book which says : " La yukalliffuu yukallifullaha nufsun ilia wus'aha." God never burdens any one beyond the extent of his power. ”

“ Lip gratitudes carry no weight with the Lord. Their gratitude ought to have consisted in paying more to the labourers than they deserve, and in the long run the capitalists would not have been the losers. ”

“ But unfortunately some of these great men which through their complete submission to God reached this exalted position, and through their example showed us our capacity and our limit of progress, have been deified. ”