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59 Malfuzat – Volume IV of support and heavenly miracles testify to this truth. Since company bears an influence, therefore, if a person with good intentions, pure objectives and honest effort remains for a period of time with a man who reflects godly attributes in his actions, movements, deeds and statements, they will certainly come to believe in the existence of God Almighty, even if previously they were an atheist, because the Truthful one is a manifestation of God. The word insan (human) is derived from unsan , i. e. one who possesses two forms of love ( uns) ; one love for God and the second for human beings. Being from the same species, since a person relates more to other humans, and seeing them, becomes instantly influenced by them, as such, remaining in the company of an exemplary individual and staying with a Truthful one grants a person such light by which they are able to behold God and be saved from sin. A human has two beings, as it were. One body is that which is developed within the womb of the mother—the same being that all of you can see, which comes out into the world. This is a body which everyone receives without any distinc - tion. However, a human being is given another body also, which develops in the company of a Truthful one. This being is not one which we can apparently touch or feel through observation. However, this being is such that when it is devel - oped, a kind of death overtakes a person, and one is separated completely from the thoughts, deeds and actions that previously existed or affected one’s heart. One is freed from the doubts that previously darkened one’s heart, and it is this being which represents true salvation—the body that is granted after one devel - ops true purity. For until one is delivered from doubts, there can be no deliver - ance from darkness and one cannot attain true purity; such a one cannot see God, and one’s heart cannot perceive the greatness and fear of God. In truth, one is blind towards God, and a person who cannot see God in this world will remain deprived on the Day of Resurrection also. God states Himself: 1 ٰى َم ْ ِع َ ا ِ ٍة َِرَ َخ ٰ ا اْلْ ِـي َف َ ْو ُ ِه َفَ ٰى َم ْ ِع َ ا ۤ ٗهٖ ِ ِّذ ٰ ْه ْ ي ِـ َف َنَ ْ َكَا ُن َمَ But whoso is blind in this world will be blind in the Hereafter. This cannot mean that a person who is physically blind in this world would be blind in the hereafter as well. On the contrary, 2 what this really implies is that 1 Bani Isra’il, 17:73 2 Al-Hakam , volume 5, no. 44, dated 30 November 1901, pp. 9-12 p. 332