The Essence of Islam – Volume V — Page 9
Miracles, Signs and Prophecies 9 and some to heaven. Thus every kind of sign is shown for him. This stage is not too difficult to understand and we need not discuss it any further. For if, as stated earlier, someone has attained this third station, the world can never compete with him. Anyone who falls on him shall be shattered, and anyone on whom he falls will be smashed into smithereens, because his hand is the Hand of God and his countenance is the. Countenance of God. And his station is beyond anyone's reach. [Haqiqat-ul-Waḥī, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 22, p. 53]. Let it be known that a miracle is one of the Divine practices, or one of the acts of the Omnipotent One, that can be called supernormal. Thus, the reality of supernormal phenomena is that when those whose souls are purified transcend the ordinary human condition, and cut through their low habits, and march forward trying to gain nearness to God, He then deals with them in such a strange way—in accordance with their condition that, as compared to the normal huIman state, it appears to be an altogether supernormal phenomenon. And to the extent that a person forges ahead on the path of love and devotion, having renounced his mortal state and having torn up the veils of the self, to the same extent do these miracles appear for him with greater clarity, transparency and brilliance. When the purity of the human self reaches its perfection, and one's heart becomes totally devoid of everything other than God, and becomes suffused with His love, it is then that all his acts and deeds,