The Essence of Islam – Volume I — Page 23
Islam the True and Living Faith 23 off the other with pleasure in obedience to Him, and the love of the grandeur of His commandments and the thirst for seeking His pleasure should make sin so hateful as if it were a consuming fire, or a fatal poison, or an obliterating lightning, from which one must run away with all one's power. For seeking His pleasure one must surrender all the desires of one's ego; and to establish a relationship with Him one should be ready to endure all kinds of injuries; and to prove such relationship one must break off all other relationships. . The service of one's fellow-beings means to strive for their benefit purely for the sake of God in all their needs, and in all the relationships of mutual dependence which. God has established out of true and selfless sympathy for them. All in need of help should be helped out of one's. God-given capacity and one must do his best for their betterment both in this world and in the hereafter. [Ã'ina-e-Kamālāt-e-Islām, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, Vol. 5, pp. 59-62]. Blessings of Islām. I would now wish to enlarge upon the fruits of Islām. Let it be clear that when a true seeker lives Islām in full, and each one of his faculties, without any affectation or pretence, spontaneously begins to tread the path of God. Almighty, the result of his efforts is that the higher manifestations of Divine guidance, freed from all intervening veils, hasten towards him. Diverse types of blessings descend upon him. The commandments and doctrines, which were accepted on faith and as hearsay, are now experienced by him as realities and certainties through true visions, and definite and unambiguous revelation. . The mysteries of the faith and the law are revealed to him