Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 424
any dregs. My self" was separated; from me an - d;I ; became. like/a ' thing which is not visible or like a drop which is mixed. with :the ; wat : ers : of a -'river and is -lost therein. la that condition, I did not know what I was before and what was my person; Divinity permeated -my sinews and. muscles; and my. own person was completely lost. Allah employe'd all my limbs in His service : and laid' hold of me 1 with the greatest possible firmness so that il 1 was completly lost in His grasp. I believed then -'that my limbs 'were not mine but G-od's and I thought that *ny individuality ; had ceased to exist and that ; my identity was losfy that I had no -partner and no one to oppose my will. God entered:into my person; and my anger and my meekness, my displeasure and my kindness, my movements arid my rest were all His, and in that : condition I was saying: : ' ' -- ; ;. j. j 3 - 3 " We desire a new system, a new heaven, and a new earth!". Sbi. I first created heaven and earth. en masse ^without any order-or division. Then, in accordance with divine. will, I. pro- duced order and division and,,! saw that I was able to. create them. :Then I created the lowest heaven and said,, ;. ;. : : XW;U>)4w jJ ]. +. U^J ( ). U. j (j ). . . , ' "Verily, we have decked the lowest heaven with- lights. " Then I said, "Now We will create man from the particles drawn from clay. " Then I was transferred from a state of trance to that of receiving divine revelation and my tongue was made to repeat the following words :~ :. ,3 Jj ' ,. M> J , f ^ Ui 1! ) : U*U U U J, f v^. jUUL ) ^ J O J j ] | " J ^? Vf ' ' ' -- " I -, : "I willed that I might have a vicegerent. So. I created Adam- We made man of the goodliest fabric. "