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no associate or claimant had remained as an obstruction. God. Almighty entered wholly into my being and my anger and my gentleness, and my bitterness and my sweetness and my movement and my inertness all became His. In this condition. I said: I desire a new universe, a new heaven and a new earth. ". One would observe from this complete statement that the hostile citation of Hadhrat Ahmad's as statement has expunged a large section of the original vision recorded by him only because it proves that he did not claim Divinity but that in a state of vision, the Glory of God descended upon him and none can object to such a phenomenon a phenomenon totally acceptable to Islamic thought as for instance acknowledged by. Hadhrat Abu Yazid Bustamith who stated: 'If a man be totally lost in God, since God is everything he will see in himself everything. "8. This statement by the revered Persian saint is in strict conformity with Islamic teachings since Hadhrat Muhammadsa is stated that God Almighty declared: 'My servant who offers optional prayers constantly increases in grade of nearness to me so much so that I also begin to love him. Then I become his ears with which he hears and his eyes with which he sees and his hands with which he holds. things and his feet with which he walks. 19. To a person of Abdul Hafeez's calibre, this statement by. Hadhrat Muhammad sa may suggest that God literally becomes the ears and eyes and hands and feet of a person who offers optional prayers constantly. But, this does not alter the fact that in truth, it proposes to establish that those people who engage 7. Ahmad, [Hadhrat] Mirza Ghulam. Kitabul Bariyyah, p. 85/87; Ruhani Khazain, vol. xiii, pp. 103/105 8. Bustami, [Hadhrat] Abu Yazid, vide. Tadhkirath al Aulia, ch. xiv, p. 146 9. Sahih Bukhari 63