Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 149
10 March 1905 149 Ummah], said that the intention of the questioner was to ask how he could rid this desire from his heart. The Chosen and Beloved of God said: How can he be cured until this perceived greatness he has for kashf is removed from his heart? Hence, why I am explain- ing the difference. A lady that comes to clean our home also describes a series of her true dreams, but this does not prove that she is favoured in the estimation of God, or that she is endowed with miracles. But this is for sure that the degree of clarity in a Muslim’s vision will never be matched by a non-Muslim, for Allah the Exalted maintains a distinction between a Muslim and a non-Muslim as He says: 1 ْدَق َحَلْفَا ْنَم اَهىّٰكَز ْدَق َحَلْفَا ْنَم اَهىّٰكَز But kashf cannot reach [the level of ] wa hi. It is the merit of wa hi that God Almighty selects a person for it by His will; He bestows the honour of dialogue upon him, and becomes his Protector and Helper in every conflict. The bond between God and the person gifted with wa hi continues to strengthen and increase daily, and he experiences extraordinary growth in faith every day. 2 1. Surely, he prospers who augments it ( S u rah ash-Shams, 91:10). [Publisher] 2. Al-Badr, vol. 4, no. 8, p. 2, dated 13 March 1905; al- H akam, vol. 9, no. 9, p. 9, dated 17 March 1905.