The Essence of Islam – Volume III — Page 68
68. Essence of Islam-III and manifest such devotion as is beyond the power of man. He cuts asunder from all besides Allah, and removes all intervening barriers and obstructions. He is tested and persecuted and encounters diverse types of trials and is afflicted with such calamities and misfortunes as would have destroyed mountains and darkened the sun and the moon; but he remains steadfast and endures all hardships cheerfully. Even if he is ground to dust by the mortar and pestle of calamities, no sound proceeds from him except: 'I stand with God'. When a person arrives at this stage, he rises above the conditions of this world and is given, by way of reflection, all of the guidance and high status that were bestowed upon previous Prophets and Messengers, and he becomes their heir and their deputy. [Ā'īna-e-Kamālāt-e-Islām, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 5, pp. 233-237]. The Soul at Rest. The third question is: what are the spiritual states?. . . According to the Holy Qur'ān, 'Nafs-e-Mutma 'innah' [the. Soul at Rest] is the source of spiritual states that conveys a person from the stage of a moral being to that of a godly being, as Allah the Exalted, has said: يَايَتُهَا النَّفْسُ الْمُطْمَئِنَّةُ ارْجِعِي إِلَى رَبِّكِ رَاضِيَةً مَرْضِيّةً . فَادْخُلِي فِي عِبَادِي وَادْخُلِي جَنَّتِيه ؟ 55. That is: 'O Soul at Rest with thy Lord, return to thy. Lord, He is well pleased with thee and thou are well pleased with Him. So join My true servants and enter. My garden. '. The highest spiritual condition man can achieve in this 55 Al-Fajr, 89:28-31 [Publisher]