The Essence of Islam – Volume I — Page 354
354. Essence of Islam-1 happiness, cannot be found without following the Holy. Qur'an. Would that people could see that which I have seen and they could hear that which I have heard and give up following stories and run towards reality. The means of obtaining perfect knowledge through which one can see God, the cleansing water which removes all doubts, and the mirror through which one can behold that. High Being, is the converse with God which I have just mentioned. He whose soul seeks the truth should arise and search for it. . I say truly that if souls were inspired by true search and hearts felt true thirst, people would look for this way and would search for it. I assure the seekers that Islām alone gives the good news of this way, for other people have since long sealed up the possibility of revelation. Be sure that this seal is not set by God, but as man has deprived himself of this favour, he seeks excuses for its absence. . As it is not possible that we should be able to see without eyes, hear without ears, or speak without a tongue, in the same way, it is not possible that we should be able to behold the countenance of the sweet Beloved without the. Holy Qur'an. I was young and am now old, but I have found no one who might have drunk of this clear understanding without this holy fountain. [Islāmī Uşūl ki Philosophy, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, Vol. 10, pp. 442-443]. The straight path and the principal means which is full of the light of certainty and constant experience, and is the perfect guide for our spiritual welfare and our intellectual progress, is the Holy Qur'ān which is charged with the settlement of all the religious contests of the world. Each and every word of it consistently carries thousands of repeated confirmations and it contains a large quantity of