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All a h the Exalted 3 For its manifestation, Ra h m a niyyat demands the absence of existence and its operation is related only to animates and not to inanimates. Ra hi miyyat demands for its manifestation an affirmation of their nothingness and non-existence from the part of creation which is endowed with reason and relates only to man. M a likiyyat of the Day of Judgement demands for its manifestation humble supplication and pleading and re- lates only to such of mankind as fall like beggars on the threshold of Unity and spread forth their mantle of sin- cerity in order to receive grace and, finding themselves empty handed, believe in the M a likiyyat of God. These four attributes are in operation all the time. Of these Ra hi miyyat moves a person to supplication and M a likiyyat consumes a person in the fire of fear and terror and gives birth to true humility, for this attribute estab- lishes that God is the Master of recompense and that no one has the right to demand anything. Forgiveness and salvation are through grace. [Ayy a m-u s - S ula h , R uha n i Khaz a ’in, Vol. 14, pp. 242-243] In S u rah F a ti h ah God Almighty has set forth four of His attributes, namely, Rabb-ul-‘ A lam i n , Ra h m a n , Ra hi m and M a lik-i-Yaum-id-D i n. The order in which they are men- tioned is the natural order of these four attributes and they are manifested in this order. Divine grace is mani- fested in the world in four types. The first is the most general grace. This is the absolute grace which perpetually envelops everything from the heavens to the earth without distinction of animate or inanimate. The coming into being of everything from