Blessings of Khilafat — Page 176
176 Hadrat Ibr a h i m as [Abraham], who was a Prophet of God, reached this stage. Allah says about him: 26 That is, when God said: [submit], Hadrat Ibr a h i m as replied with [I have submitted to the Lord of the worlds]. Hence, one station of man was such that he can be counted as being from among the angels. At that stage he thought he could do something so he asked for an order to be given. But this is a station at which one says that he is mere nothing, and that he will act as commanded by God. Now, since he will act as God tells him to act, all of his actions will be God’s actions; for the pen only inscribes what the writer wills. It is said that there was a soldier who would move his sword so quickly and forcefully that he could cut all four legs of a horse with one stroke. When the king’s son saw the scene, he asked for the sword. The man was hesitant to give it to him, but the king asked him to hand over the sword to the boy. When the prince moved the sword, nothing happened. The soldier said that the reason he did not want to give him the sword was that there was nothing so special about the sword. He said that the sword would cut all four legs of the horse because of the hands that were using it. Even if he 26 S u rah al-Baqarah , 2:132