| 11. And the same is true of Time. We do not remember the past and of the future, we know nothing - and this is
only for our good. In the Holy Quran are mentioned five things where God has sole power and man is helpless.
One of them is knowledge of the future. We are free to guess, but guessing is not knowledge.
This ignorance concerning the future is indeed our
good fortune. Likewise, our forgetfulness of the past is truly good. If a bad
man becomes a good one, I do not respect him when I remember the past. No
matter what he says, I am unable to forget his old sins.
It is only when he dies and is reborn in another
form that the world can forget his sins. Memories of the past increase
our evil dispositions. When all past experience is forgotten, everything
is over. There must be some way of forgetting the sins and virtues of
the past. That way is death. When we cannot endure the sufferings of
this birth, why take up the muckheaps of past janmas? Is there not enough rubbish in the little
room of this one life? Even our childhood we tend to forget. And it is good to forget it. To achieve
Hindu-Muslim unity the only means is to forget the past. Aurangazeb may have been a tyrant, but how
long will you repeat it? |
