The Essence of Islam – Volume I — Page 26
Christians and others were to supplicate their false gods, even unto death, they could not achieve that stage. . I hear the words of God, which the others believe in only as a theory. I have been shown and have been told and have been made to understand that Islām alone is the true faith in the world, and it has been disclosed to me that I have received all this through the blessing of following the Khātam-ul-Anbiya' [peace and blessings of Allāh be on him] and that the equal of it cannot be achieved in any other religion for they are all false. [Ā'ina-e-Kamālāt-e-Islām, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, Vol. 5, pp. 275-276]. God be thanked a thousand times, Who has bestowed upon us a religion, which is such a means of attaining to the knowledge of God and to the fear of God, as has had no equal in any age. Thousands of blessings be upon the immaculate Prophets through whom we have entered this faith and thousands of Divine mercies be bestowed upon his companions who irrigated this garden with their blood. . Islām is such a blessed and God-indicating religion that if a person follows it truly and acts upon the teachings, guidance and admonitions contained in the Holy Word of. God Almighty, the Holy Qur'an, he would behold God in this very life. For the recognition of God, Who is hidden from the sight of the world behind thousands of screens, there is no other means except the teachings of the. Qur'an. The Holy Qur'an guides towards God Almighty through reason and heavenly signs in a very easy manner. It comprehends a blessing and a magnetic power, which draws a seeker of God every moment towards God and bestows light, comfort and satisfaction. A true believer in the Holy Qur'an does not merely contemplate