Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 66
66 HAQIQATUL-WAḤI-THE PHILOSOPHY OF DIVINE REVELATION Sign that does not get shown for him. This is not difficult to compre- hend and there is no need for a debate on this issue, for if someone has, in reality, attained this third stage that has been described, the world can never compete with him. Anyone who falls upon him shall be shat- tered, and anyone upon whom he falls, he will smash him into pieces, because his hand is the hand of God and his face is the face of God. His station is beyond anyone's reach. It is obvious that many people have wealth but if they insolently challenge the king whose treasures are spread in the east and in the west, what would be the outcome of such a challenge except [their] humiliation? Such people would perish and whatever little wealth they have would also be confiscated. Al-Aziz [The Mighty] is the attribute of God. He does not grant His majesty to anyone except those who are lost in His love. Az-Zahir [The Manifest] is the attribute of God and He does not grant His manifestation to anyone except those who are to Him as [honoured as] His Unity and Oneness, and are lost in His love to the extent that they have now become as [honoured as] His attributes. He grants them light out of His light, and grants them knowledge out of His knowledge. Then they worship the Unique Beloved with all their heart, all their soul, and all their devotion, and they desire His will just as He Himself does. Man boasts to worship God, but can worship be done merely by an abundance of prostration, bowing, and standing? Or can those who keep rotating the beads of a rosary many a time be called worshippers of the Divine? Rather, worship can [only] be done by the one whom the love of God draws towards Himself to such a degree that his own self is removed from in between. To begin with, there should be firm conviction in the existence of God, and then there should be a full acquaintance of God's beauty and beneficence, and then there should be such a bond of love with Him that the flame of love should be ever present in the bosom, and this ecstasy should be evident upon the face at every moment. God's greatness should be [so firmly planted] in the heart that the whole world appears dead in front of His being,