The Essence of Islam – Volume I — Page 198
198. Essence of Islam-1 of God which had disappeared from the world; he loved. God in the extreme and his soul melted out of sympathy for mankind. Therefore, God, Who knew the secret of his heart, exalted him above all the Prophets and all the first ones and the last ones and bestowed upon him in his lifetime all that he desired. . He is the fountainhead of every grace and a person who claims any superiority without acknowledging his grace is not a man but is the spawn of Satan, because the Holy. Prophet has been bestowed the key to every exaltation and he has been given the treasury of every understanding. He who does not receive through him is deprived forever. I am nothing and possess nothing. I would be most ungrateful if I were not to confess that I have learnt of the true Unity of God through this Prophet. The recognition of the Living God we have achieved through this perfect Prophet and through his light. The honour of converse with God, through which we behold His countenance, has been bestowed upon me through this great. Prophet. The ray of this sun of guidance falls like sunshine upon me and I continue illumined only so long as I am adjusted towards it. [Ḥaqiqat-ul-Waḥi, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, Vol. 22, pp. 118-119]. O all ye who dwell upon the earth, and O all human souls that are in the east or in the west, I announce to you emphatically that the true reality in the earth is Islām alone, and the True God is the God Who is described in the. Qur'an, and the Prophet who has everlasting spiritual life and who is seated on the throne of glory and holiness, is. Muḥammad, the chosen one [peace and blessings of Allāh be on him]. The proof of his spiritual life and holy majesty is that by following him and loving him we become