The Essence of Islam – Volume II — Page 262
262. Essence of Islām II innocent one is that he should be occupied with Istighfar more than anyone else. The true meaning of Istighfar is to supplicate God that, through His grace, the human weakness through which a person might stumble and be guilty of default might be covered up and should not be manifested. Then the meaning of Istighfar is extended for the common people so as to comprise a supplication that whatever default might have been committed, God. Almighty might be pleased to safeguard the supplicant from its ill consequences and poisonous results in this world and in the hereafter. . Thus the source of true salvation is the personal love of. God, the Glorious, which draws to itself the love of God. Almighty through humility and supplication and constant. Istighfar. When man's love of God becomes perfect and its fire burns up human passions, then God's love for him suddenly falls upon his heart and pulls him out of the foulness of the lower life. He then acquires the colour of the holiness of God the Ever-Living and All-Sustaining, and he partakes by way of reflection in all Divine attributes. He then becomes a manifestation of Divine reflections and, through him all the mysteries hidden and latent in the eternal treasure of Rububiyyat are disclosed to the world. [Chashma-e-Masīḥī, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 20, pp. 378-380]. Do not expect that any other design can purify the human ego. As darkness can be dispelled only by light, in the same way, the remedy for the darkness of sin are the. Divine reflections in word and action which in a miraculous way descend upon a good heart from God with fierce rays, and show him that God exists and remove the foulness of all doubts and bring satisfaction and contentment. By the strong attraction of His heavenly power,