Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 65
CHAPTER III 65 deal with them in a unique manner, as if their God is a Unique God of whom the world is unaware. God Almighty treats them in a manner which is only for them and not for anyone else, as illustrated by Ibrāhīm, may peace be on him. Since he was truthful and a loyal servant of God, God helped him at the time of every tribulation. When he was cast into the fire unjustly, God made the fire cool for him. Similarly, when an unscrupulous king had ill intention towards his wife, God afflicted those hands with which he intended to fulfil his impure intentions. And then when Ibrāhīm, under divine command, left his beloved son, who was Ismā‘il [Ishmael], in such mountainous terrain as had neither food nor water, God produced for him water and food out of nowhere. Obviously, there are many people who are killed by cruel people, cast into fire, and drowned in water, and yet, even though they are also virtuous, no help from God Almighty reaches them. There are many such people whose women are raped by wicked people, and there are many others whose children die of thirst, craving for water in some wilderness, but no well of Zamzam springs forth for them from the unseen. Thus, it is understood that God Almighty treats everyone in accordance with the relationship [that they have cultivated with Him]. Though the loved ones of God also suffer hardships, divine help is prominently with them, and divine honour does not tolerate that they be humiliated and disgraced, and His love [for them] does not tolerate that their names be effaced from the world. And, this also is the very essence of miracles that when a person, with all his being, becomes God's, and no veil remains between him and his Lord, and he accomplishes all of those stages of loyalty and sincerity that burn away the veils, he is then declared an heir to God and to His Omnipotence, and God Almighty manifests diverse Signs for his sake, some of which are for repelling evil, while others are for bestowing good; some pertain to his person, and some to his family; some pertain to his foes, and some to his friends; some pertain to his countrymen, and some to the entire world; and some are from the earth, and some are from the heavens. In short, there is no [kind of]