Blessings of Prayer — Page 41
41 My own experience at the time of the descent of revelation—which comes to me in the form of Wa h i- e-Wal a yat —is that I become aware of an external and very powerful hold over myself. At times this influence is so strong and its light so takes hold of me, and so forcefully do I find myself drawn towards it, that I am powerless to resist. Under this influence, I hear clear and manifest revelation. Sometimes I even see the angels 19 and perceive the power and awe of the truth. Very often the revelation comprehends matters of the unseen. The external hold is so powerful that it gives evidence of the existence of God. To deny this would be the carnage of a self- evident truth. It would be better for Sayyid Sahib to accept this truth prior to his death, and to abstain from blasphem- ing heavenly revelation. It is odd that he looks into the physical order but does not correlate it to the spiritual one. He does not understand that when God has fashioned our physical order in such a way that physical light comes down to us from heaven, and the True Benefactor sends down His bounties upon our physical faculties through heavenly means, and it is 19 I do not only see the angels, but at times even their intermediary role in the revelation is revealed to me. [Author]