Bounties of the Gracious God — Page 11
The newspaper Al-LiwĀ’ & a Heavenly Sign 11 perished under the cunning plots of the enemy and the pious ones would have been losers in this world and in the Hereafter. They would have perished due to separation from Him and died without having opened their eyes, and there would have indeed been no one more unfortunate than them. Verily, Allah is their Paradise and their protection, and it is for Him that they have abandoned their pleasure and comfort. How would the Beloved then abandon those who have wholeheartedly become His? In fact, divine grace runs towards such a person who only walks to Him. The entire humankind is blind, for it does not recognize His friends. God, however, makes them known through signs that shine bright like the day. If there were never any unusual occurrences, what significance would the signs have? O sons of Islam and the Ummah of our Prophet, the Chosen One, peace be upon him! May Allah prolong His mercy upon him until the very day when you will find people as if they are inebriated, though they will not be inebriated. Why do you not ponder? Doubtless, our God is One and Matchless. He is Eternal and Ever-Existing. Surely, he who doubts this and has misgivings about this is a disbeliever. He reveals Himself to His chosen ones in such novel ways and manifests Himself to His friends in such new garbs that it seems as if He is another God altogether whom the creation does not recognize. And then He works such won- ders for them as have no precedent in this world. He manifests His extraordinary powers only for those who deserve them and have pure souls. He descends for him who alights from the car- riage of Amm a rah [the self that incites to evil] and rides death in pursuit of the pleasure of the divine, and prostrates himself at His threshold, and burns down and relinquishes all desires of the self.