The Essence of Islam – Volume I — Page 41
Allāh the Exalted. Belief in the Unity of God Established through the Holy Prophetsa 41. It is a false and stinking notion that belief in the Unity of. God can be achieved otherwise than through the Holy. Prophet [peace and blessings of Allāh be on him]; nor can man achieve salvation without it. How can there be faith in the Unity of God unless there is perfect certainty with regard to His existence? Be sure, therefore, that belief in the Unity of God can be achieved only through a. Prophet, as our Holy Prophet [peace and blessings of. Allāh be on him] convinced the atheists and pagans of. Arabia of the existence of God Almighty by showing them thousands of heavenly signs. Up till today, the true and perfect followers of the Holy Prophet [peace and blessings of Allāh be on him] present those signs to the atheists. . The truth is that till a person observes the living powers of the Living God, Satan does not depart from his heart, nor does true Unity enter into it, nor can he believe with certainty in the existence of God. This holy and perfect. Unity is appreciated only through the Holy Prophet [peace and blessings of Allāh be on him]. [Haqiqat-ul-Waḥī, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, Vol. 22, pp. 120-121]. It is not within the power of man to comprehend all the activities of the Divine, as they are above reason, intellect and imagination. A man should not be proud of his pittance of knowledge that he has to some degree comprehended the system of cause and effect, inasmuch as that knowledge of his is very limited, as if it were a millionth part of one drop out of the ocean. The truth is that as God Almighty Himself is unbounded His activities are unbounded also. It is beyond and above human power to