The Need for the Imam — Page 30
30 vealed in a state of pathos, so you should recite it with a feeling of anguish. 2. True revelation is accompanied by a quality of pleasure and ecstasy; it bestows conviction for an un- known reason, and it penetrates the heart like a nail of steel and its wording is eloquent and free from error. 3. True revelation has a certain grandeur and loftiness about it; it hits the heart hard, and it descends upon it with might and with an awesome voice. On the con- trary, false revelation is marked by a faint voice like that of thieves, eunuchs and females, for Satan is a thief, a eunuch and a woman. 4. True revelation carries in it the effect of Divine powers. And it is essential that it should contain prophecies that come to be fulfilled. 5. True revelation continues to make a person more and more pious with each passing day, and cleanses his inner impurities and filth, and enhances his moral condition. 6. True revelation is testified by all the inner faculties of a man, which are illumined by a new and divine light. He finds a change in himself, his earlier life suf- fers death and a new life begins, and he becomes a medium of compassion for mankind at large. 7. True revelation does not end with a single revela- tion, for God’s voice has continuity. He is most Kind.