The Essence of Islam – Volume II — Page 171
Angles 171 that at any time the Holy Spirit with all its effects departs from them is entirely based upon falsehood and insults the holy elect of God Almighty by his dark thought. But it is true, that although the real Holy Spirit remains at its station, its reflection, which is metaphorically called the Holy. Spirit, enters into the breasts and hearts and brains and limbs of those who, after attaining the station of immortality (Baqa) and communion with God (Liqā), become fit for the perfect love of God Almighty with all its blessings to descend upon their pure and undefiled love. When that. Holy Spirit descends it establishes a relationship with that person like the relationship of the soul with the body. . It becomes the faculty of sight and works in the eyes, and putting on the garment of the faculty of hearing bestows spiritual sense on the ears, it becomes the power of speech of the tongue and the righteousness of the heart and the intelligence of the brain and flows through the hands and affects the feet. In short, it lifts all darkness from the body and illumines it from the hair of the head to the nails of the toes. Were it to depart for a moment, darkness would immediately take its place. It is such a good companion for the perfect people that it does not depart from them for a moment and to imagine that it can depart from them would be a confession that after entering into light they fall again into darkness, and that after having been protected and made secure their evildirecting minds revert to them and that after they are bestowed spiritual senses, those senses are rendered useless and are suspended. . . . . Every light, comfort, satisfaction. , blessing, steadfastness, and every spiritual bounty, is bestowed upon the elect through the Holy Spirit. As for the disbelievers and the wicked, Satan has been appointed their evil companion for