The Essence of Islam – Volume I — Page 234
234. Essence of Islam-1 of perfection on the one side in the love of God and, on the other, in the love of mankind. As he approached God fully and then approached mankind fully it became the case of one chord between two bows and thus fulfilled the condition for intercession. Indeed, in His Word, God bore witness for him that he occupied a place between. God and mankind like a common chord between two bows. . At another place, describing his nearness to God, the. Holy Qur'ān says: قُلْ اِنَّ صَلاتِي وَنُسُكِي وَمَحْيَايَ وَمَمَاتِي لِلَّهِ رَبِّ الْعَلَمِينَ 136. That is to say: The Holy Prophet [peace and blessings of. Allāh be on him] was commanded to inform people that he had become completely freed from himself and that all his worship was wholly for God. . . . . This verse indicates that the Holy Prophet [peace and blessings of Allāh be on him] had become so devoted to and lost in God that every breath of his life and even his death had become wholly God's, and that his ego and the creation and means had no part in his being, and that his soul was prostrated so sincerely at the threshold of God that nothing else had the slightest share in it. . . . . As the love of God, and arriving at a high station in nearness to Him, is a matter of which other people cannot be aware, God Almighty made manifest such of the actions of the Holy Prophet [peace and blessings of Allāh be on him] as show that he had adopted God in preference to everything else, and that every particle of his was so saturated with the love and greatness of God that his being was like a mirror for the full observation of Divine 136 al-An'ām, 6:163 [Publisher]