Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 23
CHAPTER III In description of those people who receive revelation from God in the perfect and clearest manner, and enjoy the honour of converse and discourse in a perfect manner, and the dreams that they see are also true like the breaking of the dawn, and who have the most perfect and complete relation- ship of love with God; they enter the fire of divine love and their carnal self is totally consumed by the flame of light. It should be borne in mind that God Almighty is Most Benevolent and Merciful; whoever turns to Him with sincerity and purity, He responds with even greater sincerity and purity for him. Whoever advances towards Him with a sincere heart never goes to waste. Almighty God possesses magnificent attributes of love, fidelity, grace, munificence, and displaying divine wonder, but they are fully witnessed only by those who are completely lost in His love. Although He is very Benevolent and Merciful, He is also Independent and Self-Sufficient. Therefore, only he who dies in His path, attains life from Him; and only he who forsakes everything for Him, receives the heavenly bounty. Those who establish a perfect relationship with God Almighty are like a person who first sees a light of fire from a distance and then draws closer to it until he puts himself into the fire; his whole body is thereby consumed, and only the fire remains. Likewise, the one who