The Essence of Islam – Volume III — Page 70
70. Essence of Islam-III أُولَئِكَ كَتَبَ فِي قُلُوبِهِمُ الايْمَانَ وَأَيَّدَهُمْ بِرُوحِ مِّنْهُ 56 وزينه في قُلُوبِكُمْ وَكَرّة اليْكُمُ الْكُفْرَ وَالْفُسُوقَ وَالْعِصْيَانَ أُولَيكَ هُمُ الرّاشِدُونَ ، فَضْلًا مِنَ اللهِ وَ نِعْمَةَ وَاللَّهُ عَلِيْمٌ حَكِيمُ 0 57 جَاءَ الْحَقُّ وَزَهَقَ الْبَاطِلُ إِنَّ الْبَاطِلَ كَانَ زَهُوقًا 58. These verses mean that: 'These are the ones in whose hearts Allah has inscribed faith with His own hand and whom He has helped with the Holy Spirit. ' ‘O believers, Allah has made faith attractive to you and has instilled its beauty and grace in your hearts. And He has made your hearts averse to disbelief, wickedness and disobedience and has impressed upon your hearts the repugnance for evil ways. All this has come about through the grace and favour of Allah. ' 'Truth has arrived and falsehood has fled. How could falsehood ever stand up to truth. ". All this pertains to the spiritual states which a person attains at the third stage. No one can acquire true insight unless he arrives at this condition. The fact that God inscribes faith on their hearts with His own hand and helps them with the Holy Spirit means that no one can achieve true purity and righteousness without His help. At the stage of 'the reproaching self', a person repents time and again, yet he keeps falling down, and begins to despair and to consider his condition beyond remedy. He remains in this situation for a period and when the appointed time comes, a light which possesses Divine power descends upon him at night or during the day. With the descent of 56 Al-Mujādalah, 58:23 [Publisher] 57 Al-Hujurāt, 49:8-9 [Publisher] 58 Bani Isrā'il, 17:82 [Publisher]