The Essence of Islam – Volume I — Page 37
2. ALLAH THE EXALTED. Personal Experience with God. The God Who has manifested Himself to all the Prophets, and appeared to Moses on Mount Sinai and appeared to Jesus on Mount Seir and shone forth to Hadrat. Muḥammad, the chosen one [peace and blessings of Allāh be on him] on Mount Pārān, the same Mighty and. Holy God has manifested Himself to me. He has talked to me and has said: I am the High Being to establish. Whose worship all the Prophets were sent. I alone am the. Creator and the Master and have no associate. I am not subject to birth or death. [Government Angrezī aur Jihād, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, Vol. 17, p. 29]. The pure life that is free from sin is a brilliant ruby which no one possesses today. God Almighty has bestowed that brilliant ruby on me and He has commissioned me that I should inform the world of the way in which that brilliant ruby might be acquired. I affirm with confidence that by treading on this path everyone would certainly acquire it. . The only way in which it might be acquired is the true recognition of God; but this is a difficult and delicate matter. A philosopher, as I have said already, contemplating the heavens and earth and reflecting on the perfect orderliness of the universe, merely states that there ought to be a Creator. But I lead to a higher stage and affirm on the basis of my personal experience that God is. [Malfūzāt, Vol. III, p. 16]