Life of Ahmad — Page 358
THE ESSENCE OF ISLAM as 358 several times, remained a rod in the end. And the sparrows of Jesus as , the miraculous flight of which is referred to by the Holy Quran, were after all nothing more than dust; and nowhere do we find it stated in the Quran that life had really been breathed into them. The miracles of our Holy Prophet sa were, however, the best representation of Divine power because he was the most perfect, the most complete, the highest and the best model for the manifestation of divinity. Therefore in all outward appearance we are unable to assign his miracles to any human stage; nevertheless, we believe that here too there must be some hidden difference between the work of God and that of the Holy Prophet sa. Now our object in writing these lines is to show that a man who has reached the stage of Liq a necessarily does some Divine deeds in the best moments of this condition. And a person who passes part of his life in close connection with such a man must witness such powerful miracles because in those best moments the Divine attributes are reflected in him to an extent that his mercy becomes the mercy of God and his wrath is the wrath of God. And many times he says, without offering a prayer, "Let such and such a thing be" and it is so. He casts an angry look upon a person and the wrath of God is upon him. He casts a kind look upon