Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 776
776 HAQIQATUL-WAḤI-THE PHILOSOPHY OF DIVINE REVELATION future. No one can comprehend His powers. He is One in His being, in His attributes, and in His works. There is none who can compare with Him in any of His attributes. He is free of every defect and blemish. He is close in spite of being far, and is far in spite of being close. He is Lofty and Exalted; nonetheless it cannot be said that there is any- one below Him. He is Hidden beyond hidden, yet we cannot say He is not Manifest. He is the Most Manifest, yet we cannot say that He is not Hidden. He shines forth from the sun and His light is seen in the moon, yet we cannot say that He is the sun or the moon. On the contrary, all those things are His creation, and one who calls them God is a disbeliever. He is Transcendent beyond the transcend- ent, yet He is Most Evident. Each soul derives its powers and capabil- ities from Him and every particle has been granted its properties by Him alone. If those properties, powers, and capabilities are taken away, then neither souls nor particles are left with any reality of their own. Therefore, the ultimate point of human cognizance of God is that all these things emanate from the hand of God. The bond of love between God and souls exists because all these things have been created by Him. It is He who has leavened their nature with the salt of His love. Without it, love for God would have been an impossibility, because of the absence of a mutual relationship between them. A child loves its mother because she gives birth to it, and the mother, too, loves it because it is a part of her being. Since every soul has emanated from the Divine, it is, therefore, in constant search for its True Beloved. Hence, some mistakenly worship idols or the sun or the moon or water or man. Hence, the cause of this mistake, too, is the same craving for the True Beloved-the very craving that is ingrained within human nature. Just as a child, in its eagerness for its mother, sometimes mistakes another woman for her and clings to her, simi- larly all creature-worshippers have mistakenly begun bowing in front of other objects. And God's Shariah has been revealed to rectify these mistakes. And God's Shariah is the only thing that can root out these mistakes with full force.