At the time I
approached old age, my physical health, which perpetuates heedlessness, was
broken. Old age and illness attacked me in concert. Hitting me over the head,
they chased away sleep. I had nothing to bind me to the world like family,
children, and possessions. Having wasted the fruits of my life’s the capital on
the giddiness of youth, I saw them to consist only of sins and mistakes. Crying
out like Niyazi Misri, I said:
I had concluded no trade; the capital of life was all lost;
I came to the road to find the caravan had moved on, unaware.
Lamenting, I continued down the road, all alone, a stranger;
My eyes weeping, my heart in anguish, my mind bewildered,
unaware.
I was in exile at the time; I felt a despairing sorrow, a
regretful penitence, a longing for assistance. Suddenly, the All-Wise Qur’an
came to my aid. It opened a door of hope so powerful and afforded a light of
consolation so true that it could have dispelled despair and darknesses a
hundred times more intense than mine.
Yes, respected elderly men and women whose attachment to the world has begun to be sundered and the ties binding them to be broken! Is it possible that the All-Glorious Maker who creates this world as a perfectly ordered city or palace would not speak with his most important guests and friends or not meet with them? Since He knowingly made the palace and ordered and adorned it through His will and choice, certainly as one who makes knows, so one who knows will speak. Since He made this palace and city into a fine guesthouse and place of trade for us, He will surely have a book, a file, to explain His relations with us and what He desires from us.
The most holy of such Books is the Qur’an of Miraculous Exposition; it is a miracle in forty respects and is every instant on the tongues of at least a hundred million people; it scatters light, and every letter of it affords at least ten merits and rewards, and fruits of Paradise and lights in the Intermediate Realm, and sometimes ten thousand, and sometimes – through the mystery of the Night of Power – thirty thousand. There is no book in the universe to compete with it in this respect and no one could put one forward. Since this Qur’an which we have is the Word of the All-Glorious Creator of the heavens and earth, proceeding from His absolute dominicality, the tremendousness of His Godhead, and His all-encompassing mercy, and is His decree and a source of His mercy; adhere to it. In it are found a cure for every ill, a light for every darkness, and a hope for all despair. And the key to this eternal treasury is belief and submission to Allah, and listening to the Qur’an and accepting it, and reciting it.
Source: Twenty Sixth Flash, Fourth Hope
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