Elucidation of Objectives — Page 66
Tau di h-e-Mar a m 66 alone cannot help one see it; and unless the speaker speaks, air alone cannot communicate any signal to the ear. So is this light or air merely a kind of spiritual medium for the spiritual sense organs just as sunlight is the medium or stimulus for the eyes and air for the ears. When God Almighty wills to communicate His Word to the recipient's heart, consequential to His volitional intent, there is a simultaneous wave of light, a vibration of air and a kind of energy generated to stimulate the recipient's tongue in readiness for spiritual communica- tion in terms of the light of Gabriel. Because of this vibration or energy, at once the written Word of God appears before the eyes of the recipient or the tongue begins to articulate the revealed words. However, prior to revelation, the recipient is endowed with spiritual sense organs and a special spiritual light or perception as a kind of faculty. Both are granted to equip the recipient with the capability of receiving revelation before it is actually received. The reason for this is that if the recipient's heart were without the spiritual sense organs, or if his spiritual eyes were without the light of the R uh ul Qudus , how could he ever see the revealed Word of God—and that too without spiritual vision? This is why both of these are granted to the recipients well before the experience. The foregoing discussion should make it clear to our readers that the role Gabriel performs regarding revelation is three-fold: