The Essence of Islam – Volume I — Page 67
Allāh the Exalted 67. For its manifestation, Raḥmāniyyat demands the absence of existence and its operation is related only to animates and not to inanimates. . Rahimiyyat 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. . Malikiyyat of the Day of Judgement demands for its manifestation humble supplication and pleading and relates only to such of mankind as fall like beggars on the threshold of Unity and spread forth their mantle of sincerity in order to receive grace and, finding themselves empty handed, believe in the Malikiyyat of God. . These four attributes are in operation all the time. Of these Raḥimiyyat moves a person to supplication and. Malikiyyat consumes a person in the fire of fear and terror and gives birth to true humility, for this attribute establishes that God is the Master of recompense and that no one has the right to demand anything. Forgiveness and salvation are through grace. [Ayyām-uş-Şulaḥ, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, Vol. 14, pp. 242-243]. In Surah Fatihah God Almighty has set forth four of His attributes, namely, Rabb-ul-'Alamīn, Raḥmān, Raḥīm and. Mālik-i-Yaum-id-Din. The order in which they are mentioned is the natural order of these four attributes and they are manifested in this order. Divine grace is manifested 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