The Essence of Islam – Volume II — Page 269
Salvation 269 of kingly power. He discloses to him prophecies which are a sign of his honour and of the disgrace of his enemies, which indicate his victory and the defeat of his enemies. In this way, through His words and His works, manifests His existence to him. Then that servant being purified of all sin arrives at the perfection for which he has been created. [Chashma-e-Ma'rifat, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 23, pp. 418-421]. Faculties for Seeing God Can be Developed in this. Very World. The Holy Qur'ān teaches us that salvation is a matter that is manifested in this very life as He has said: من كان في هذة اعلى فَهُوَفِي الآخِرَةِ أَعْمَى 94. That is, he who is blind in this world will be blind in the hereafter also. This means that a person takes with him from this world the faculties for seeing God and the means of eternal salvation. . God has repeatedly indicated that the means of man's attaining salvation is eternal as God Himself is Eternal. It is not that after a time He recalled that if men cannot attain salvation by any other means, he should bestow salvation on them by killing Himself. A person can be described as having attained salvation when all his passions are consumed and God's will becomes his will and he becomes so devoted to God out of love that nothing remains his and everything becomes God's. All his words and deeds and movements and designs should be for God and he should perceive in his heart that all his delights are now in God and that a moment's separation 94 Bani Isrā'il 17:73 [Publisher]