A Gift for Baghdad — Page 73
Reply to the Announcement & Letter 73 teaching you and will clothe you with light and [spiritual] vest- ments from Himself. He will install you to the ranks of your pre- decessors from among the first possessors of knowledge; namely, the Prophets and the Truthful. After this, you will be granted the power of creation and the ability to perform miracles. These supernatural phenomena will be observed to be proceeding from you, whereas, in fact, they will be the acts of Allah and His will. Then you will be caused to become among people who are anguished [in the love of God] and among the group of those who are fully submissive [to Him] and whose hearts have become humble—whose natural passions and carnal desires have been shattered and obliterated and in their place has been placed Divine will, such that even their daily desires and needs function under the command of God— and who have become completely transformed. Some of Allah’s workings are revealed to His Auliy a ’ [Friends] and to the Abd ā l in a way that astounds the minds and breaks normal customs and conventions. Further, Allah—Exalted is He—will speak to them pleasant words; grant them intimate conversation; bestow glad tidings of immense gifts, lofty ranks, and nearness to Himself, so that all their affairs will end up with Him; they will achieve the goal that He has already decreed for them as a favour and mercy from Himself and by way of a Sign from Himself to them in this world, and this will continue till the end of time as predetermined by the Most Merciful of those who show mercy. Allah the Exalted has said in some of His Books: O son of Adam, I am Allah; there is no other deity besides Me. I say to a thing, ‘Be’, and it comes into being! Obey Me and I will enable you to say to a thing, ‘Be’, and it will likewise come into existence! Allah has made His Auliy a ’ like pegs for the earth and has made this world for them as the Garden of Eternal Abode. Thus, they have two paradises: this world and the next. They are like moun- tains which stand firm; they are unique with respect to truth, who let it loose so that you should warn the people whose ancestors have not been warned, and that the way of the guilty ones might become manifest. Say: ‘I have been