Reply to a Mockery — Page 51
Response to the booklet entitled Ilh a m i Girgit 51 measure of the holy attributes of humanity, i. e. sympathy and love for mankind, which is known as earthly perfec- tion. Thus, he arrived at the pinnacle of perfection in the love of God on the one hand, and in the love of mankind on the other. Since he attained perfect nearness to God and then attained perfect nearness to mankind, due to his equal nearness to both, he became, as it were, a chord between two bows. Therefore, the conditions that are necessary for intercession were present in him. This is the reason that in His Word, God put forth testimony that he stood between mankind and God just as a common chord between two arches. [. . . ] As the love of God and attaining a high station of near- ness to Him is a matter of which others cannot be cogni- zant, God Almighty manifested such actions of the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, which established that he had truly given precedence to God over everything else. Every particle of the Holy Prophet, and his every vein and fibre was so permeated with the love and greatness of God that his own being served as a mir- ror to reflect in full the spectacle of God’s manifestations. All the signs of perfect love of God, which can possibly be fathomed, were present entirely in the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. ( The Honour of Prophets, London: Islam International Publications, Ltd. , 2018. pp. 13–19) This was the intercession and intercessor towards whom Hadrat