Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 164
164 true significance of Islam is to lay oneself before God like the sheep that is to be slaughtered to lose all one's desires, passions and intentions and to be completely lost in the will and pleasure of God, to subject oneself to death, to love Him so entirely as to obey all His commandments out of love and not any other motive, to get eyes which see with God, ears which hear with God, a heart which is wholly inclined to Him and a tongue which does not move to utter a word until moved by Him- This is the stage at which all the labours of the spiritual wayfarer end, and all the passions and desires of man undergo a death. Then does the mercy of God with His living word and brilliant lights grant him a new life. Then he is honored with the sweet Word of God, and that most subtle Light which no reason can discover, nor eye can see, itself comes near to the heart of man, as He says : *V, y$ ) J^- ^j" -**J) V f \ \j^ " We are nearer him than his vein of life. " With such nearness does Almighty God honor mortal man. Then comes the time that every blindness and darkness is remov- ed and a man sees his God and hears His voice, and finds himself completely enwrapped in His mantle of light. Then is the reality of religion reached, and seeing his God a man throws off the dirty clothing of worldly life and wears the magnificient robes of Divine light. The promises of paradise and of seeing God are not then simply prospective promises to him, but he actually tastes of the delights of paradise in this very life and sees God and speaks to Him, and thus realizes even here all those promises. The Almighty God says : Jf& ) y &*~ ) f ^ ) ty -j ^ $ ^ ^ I & ) ^ 5 i> y ^ ,^1 ) &svJ b J 5 ;. io ) ^ ) y jso il ^ J ^ (s3 $ [ &&J ) ^lc " Those who say that our Lord is the God who possesses all the perfect attributes and who has no partner in His person and attributes and remain faithful to their word, their faith not being shaken by any trial or adversity, however hard it may be