The Devotion of Life — Page 79
79 “Say, My Prayer and my sacrifice and my life and my death are all for Allah, the Lord of the worlds. ” (Chapter 6:163) Therefore, when the Holy Prophet (Peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) devoted everything for Allah the Almighty and kept nothing for himself, he eclipsed all his personality and he adopted the shade of his Creator. In other words, he achieved an annihilation of his own self and after this extinction entered into the subject of his meeting and reunion (with Allah the Almighty). Allah the Almighty descended on his person and the attributes of the Creator of the Universe were absorbed in his heart and the shining ‘face’ of Allah, the Holy One, started to remain in his sight always with all its beauty and attraction. The Promised Messiah as states in this context: “This status of meeting and reunion with Allah is given to the seeker of the Divine only when he totally subordinates all the human characteristics to the Will of the Creator, just as the fire hides the colour of iron and apparently the eye can see nothing but fire. This is the stage where some of the seekers have faltered and thought of the witness as a personification of their own selves. In this state of personal reunion with the Almighty, an ordinary being can perform acts which are apparently beyond human faculties and carry the shadow of Divine Power. Just as our Master, the leader of all Prophets and the last of the Prophets (Peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), threw a handful of pebbles towards the unbelievers on the occasion of the battle of Badr. That handful was