The Light of the Holy Qur'an — Page 141
T H e J O u r NA l—F AT e H M A S IH T H e J O u r NA l—F AT e H M A S IH 141 stated above, at which the human eye, being totally free and clear of the focus on physical causes, vividly beholds the hand of God’s grace and benevolence. At this stage man has completely emerged from all the veils of ‘tangible causes’, and phrases such as ‘My crop grew because of my irrigation ’, or ‘I had this success because of the might of my arm’, or ‘such and such of my objective was achieved because of the benefaction of X’, or ‘I was saved from disaster because of the protection of Y’, begin to appear frivolous and false, and he sees only One Being, One Power, One Benefactor, and One Protector. Then alone does one behold the favours of God Almighty with a clear sight, not clouded by the slightest dust and pollution of the ‘idolatry of relying on tangible causes’. This realization is so clear and certain that, in worshipping such a Benefactor, he does not think of Him as invisible, rather he worships Him while thinking of Him to be present with certainty. Such worship has been described by the Holy Qur’an as i h s a n. The same meaning of i h s a n has been stated by the Holy Prophet , peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, as recorded in S a hih al-Bukh a r i and Muslim. Then, after this stage, there is another stage which is called