The Essence of Islam – Volume II — Page 177
Angles. The Holy Spirit Descends According to One's. Degree of Love and Sincerity 177 177. A question is raised that if the Holy Spirit is bestowed only upon those Divine favourites who arrive at the stage of survival (Baqā) and meeting (Liqā), then how can it safeguard everyone? The answer is that the perfect descent of the Holy Spirit takes place upon Divine favourites, but its general support is enjoyed also by others according to their degree of love and sincerity. . The higher manifestation of the Holy Spirit takes place when, at the stage of survival and meeting, Divine love descends upon human love and the meeting of the two loves produces that manifestation of the Holy Spirit compared with which other manifestations are as nothing. This does not mean that other manifestations do not take place at all. God Almighty does not let even a particle of sincere love go to waste. When His love descends upon the love of man, the Holy Spirit shines to the same degree. It is a firm Divine law that Divine love descends according to the degree of everyone's love, and when the river of human love flows a river of love descends from the other side, and when the two rivers meet a great light is generated which in our idiom is called the Holy Spirit. You will notice that if a teaspoonful of sugar is added to a jug of water, the water will not taste sweet, but it cannot be said that no sugar was added to it. This is the case with the Holy Spirit that descends in a deficient way upon deficient people. Its descent is not to be doubted for the idea of good is generated in the mind of the lowest person by the Holy Spirit. Sometimes a wicked evil-doer also sees a true dream and that is the effect of the Holy Spirit as is proved by the Holy Qur'ān and true Aḥadīth, but as compared to its great relationship