Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 673
A SHINING SIGN-SIGN NUMBER 198 673 ego. In short, Ilāhī Bakhsh related that dream to me with great audacity and insolence. I felt sorry at his ignorance for I was certain that what he was relating to me was nothing more than the prompting of his ego. But since I noticed in him signs of ingrained arrogance and egoism and his speech was sharp and strident, I thought it would be useless to remonstrate with him. It is a pity that many people regard everything that flows from their tongues in a state of slumber as God's word, and thus contravene the verse: 197 لا تَقْفُ مَا لَيْسَ لَكَ بِهِ عِلْمٌ It should be borne in mind that anything that flows from the tongue, even if it is not opposed to the Word of God and the word of the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, cannot be said to be the Word of God until the Work of God Almighty bears wit- ness to it. Satan, the accursed, is man's enemy and seeks diverse ways of ruining a person. This beguiler also adopts the method that he puts his words into the heart of a man and assures him that they are words of God and such a person is destroyed in the end. Thus, for someone who has some words descend upon him, to call it the word of God would amount to committing spiritual suicide, unless and until it fulfils three conditions: FIRST, it should not be opposed to, or contradict, the Holy Quran, but this alone is not enough. Unless the third condition which will be mentioned below is present, nothing can be established. SECOND, those words should descend upon a person whose soul has been completely purified. He should be one of those who have withdrawn entirely from their passions and who have submitted to a death through which they have approached close to God and have withdrawn far away from Satan. A person hears him to whom he is 1. Follow not that of which you have no knowledge (Surah Bani Isra’il, 17:37). [Publisher]