The Essence of Islam – Volume I — Page 395
The Holy Qur'an 395 with the Divine. Divine lights and revelation descend upon the hearts, and insights and fine points issue from mouths. They are bestowed a strong trust and a firm certainty and the delicious love of God, which is nurtured by the delight of meeting, is generated in their hearts. If their beings are ground down in the mortar of calamities and are squeezed in powerful presses, their essence would be found only to be the love of God. The world is unaware of them and they are far above and higher than the world. The treatment accorded to them by God is miraculous. It has been disclosed to them that God does exist; and that He is One. When they pray to Him, He hears them; and when they call on Him, He responds to them. When they seek refuge with Him, He runs to them. . He loves them more than a father. He rains down blessings on their homes. They are recognized by His overt and covert and spiritual and material support. He helps them in every field for they are His and He is theirs. . These things are not without proof. [Surmah Chashm Āryā, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, Vol. 2, pp. 72-79, footnote]. Guidance for the Righteous. Some Brahmū Samājists object that if perfect understanding depends upon the Qur'an, then why did God not publish it in all countries and in all places of population, ancient and modern, and why did He deprive millions of. His creatures of His perfect understanding and of true doctrine?. The reply is that this objection derives from shortsightedness. . . . If the light of the sun does not reach certain dark places or if some people shut their eyes like an owl on beholding the sun, would this mean that the sun has not been created by God? If the rain does not fall on