So Said The Promised Messiah (as) — Page 119
GOD REALISATION The key to all the Lights and Manifestations is the recognition and realisation of God's Being and His Attributes in this very world and so clearly that there may remain no iota of mistake or doubt. This is what produces the Fire that puts an end to the life of sinfulness, burns the man away and then grants him the Light that makes him recognise the sin and he begins to realise that the sin is a poison and therefore he runs away from it. Thus, this is the Fire of two types which, on the one hand, burns the sin and, on the other hand, empowers the man to do good deeds. It is called the Fire of Grandeur and the Fire of Beauty. One can be saved from the sin through the fear of the Grandeur. When a man realises that God is quick in awarding punishment and His punishment is very severe, also that He is the Master of the Day of Judgement, then he is frightened and this state of frightfulness keeps him away from the sin. As for Beauty, it pulls him towards the good deeds. When a man realises that God is Rabbul Aalameen (the Sustainer of all the worlds) and He is Rahman and Raheem, then, the man feels a pull towards Hirn and begins to have an ecstatic pleasurs and he starts doing good deeds. (Malfoozat Vol. III, p. 7) SECURITY AGAINST SIN That is how God has commissioned me; the aim of my appearance in the world is that I should show to the world that God is there and He gives rewards as well as He punishes. It is very clear that it is only the certainty in the Being of God that can save the man from the sin and secure him against the death through sin; we do not need to produce any logical proofs for the truth of this matter, for that is what man 119