Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 11
CHAPTER I In description of the people who experience some true dreams or some true revelations, but they have no relationship with Allah the Almighty, nor do they receive the slightest share of the light that is bestowed upon His chosen servants, and their carnal self is far removed from any relationship with the divine light. Let it be clear that since man has been created for the purpose of rec- ognizing his Creator and attaining the level of certainty in believing in His Being and His attributes, God Almighty has, therefore, fashioned the human mind accordingly. On the one hand, it has been endowed with the ability to reason, whereby it can ponder over the creations of Allah the Exalted Maker, and—having discovered the subtle imprints of the perfect wisdom of Allah the Maker, Exalted be His Name, that are evident in every particle of the universe and the magnificent and well-organized system characterizing the world order-understand with perfect insight that such a grand enterprise as the heaven and the earth cannot exist on its own without a Creator; indeed, it must have a Creator. On the other hand, it has also been endowed with the spiritual senses and faculties to compensate for the deficiency and imperfection that rational faculties experience in attaining the complete cognition of Almighty God, because it is obvious that rationality alone cannot lead to the complete cognition of God. The reason is that, by observing the