Socio Political Thought Of Shah WaliAllah Rahmatullahi Alaihi

214 Selections from Hujjat Alldh al-Bdlighah
of God: "As to the thief, male and female, cut off their hands".45
The same is in the case of the command of God: "The man and
the woman guilty of fornication, flog each of them with a hundred
stripes".46
145. Or sometimes two or more conditions of the thing affected by an act
are taken into account, as may be illustrated by the following command
of the Lawgiver: "It is obligatory to stone the adulterer and to
flog the f~rnicator".~~ Similarly, there are occasions where both the
condition of those charged with duty and the condition of the thing
affected by the act, are taken into consideration at the same time.
This may be illustrated by the following command of the Lawgiver:
"Wearing gold and silk is prohibited for the males of the ummah, but
it is not so for the females".48
146. Nothing in the Religion of God is at random. Therefore, pleasure
and displeasure over these acts do not come about except for a definite
reason. To elaborate this point a little further, we would say that
pleasure and displeasure are in fact linked with certain factors These
factors may be divided into two categories:
(i) One is to be identified with good and evil stages of social evolution
(irtifdqdt) and their dissipation, and other things similar to them.
(ii) The second category can be identified with the aims of closing the
door of distortion and abstinence from trickery that are related to the
prescribed sets of law and the methods of guidance, and similar other
factors.
147. These factors have some contexts and corollaries that are indirectly
related to them, and are attributed to them in a wider sense. An example
of this is our statement that the cause of cure is the use of
medicine, whereas in reality, the cause is the ripening of the four
humours of the body, or their emission which, in the usual natural
course, takes place after the use of medicine. Thus the cause of cure
is not exactly as contended. Similarly, it is often said that sometimes
the cause of fever is sitting in the sun, or sometimes it is tiresome
physical iabour, or sometimes it is the use of strongly hot food. But
in fact the real cause is the warming up of the humours. Thus the
real cause remains one in itself. However, the other causes generally
assigned are conducive to it and are merely external manifestations
of it.