Twenty-Three Great Objectives of Building the House of Allah — Page 111
112 grandeur. He puts on the garb of meekness; adopts humility as his habit; becomes covered with the dust of humbleness; and adopts the course of humility. Shaking and afraid he bows before his Lord with humility and a fearful heart and professes His grandeur and majesty. Every particle of his body and every bit of his soul shakes with the fear of his Lord. The manifestation of the grandeur and majesty [of God] establishes him firmly in this H aqqul Yaq i n [certainty of faith] that all of the creation is dead and nought in comparison to His grandeur. And that, no good can be expected from all the creation, neither do they have any power for that by themselves. If any hope can be pinned it can be pinned on the Lord of majesty and holiness. Then along with fear a hope flares up in his pure heart and all his hopes are pinned with his Lord and he puts all his trust only in Him, and knocks only at His door when in need. His heart is filled with the conviction that whatever he would get would come from only His threshold whether be lace of a shoe or honours of the world. Now he, who witnesses the manifestation of the grandeur and majesty [of God], does not make a beggar’s bowl of his Divine visions and dreams, and ornaments it with incidents of acceptance of supplications. He does not go door to door begging for worldly respect, honour, commendation and praise from people, seeking a place of honour for himself in their eyes. What has he got to take from a dead? And what has a corpse got to offer him? Once the awe of