The Essence of Islam – Volume II — Page 50
50. Essence of Islām II the course of which God accepted his prayers a number of times and conveyed to him fine understandings and informed him of coming events, then such a person should be most grateful to God and should be wholly devoted to Him, inasmuch as God has of His pure grace chosen him out of all His servants and has made him heir to the righteous ones who have passed on before him. . Such a bounty occurs rarely and is a matter of good fortune. Everything beside it is of no value. . Islām has always produced people of this rank and station. It is Islām alone in which God comes close to a servant and talks to him. He speaks inside him and makes his heart His throne and draws him towards heaven and bestows upon him all the bounties that have been bestowed upon those who have gone before. It is a pity that the blind world does not appreciate how near a person can approach to God. They do not step forward themselves and when some one steps forward he is either dubbed a Kafir or is deified and is put in the place of. God. [Islāmi Uşūl ki Philosophy, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 10, pp. 437-441]. Revelation Provides Comfort in Distress. It is idle to assert that revelation has no reality and is a vain thing, the harm of which is greater than its benefit. . Such an assertion is made only by a person who has never tasted this pure wine and does not desire to have true faith. Such a one is happy with his habits and customs and never seeks to find out to what degree he believes in the Almighty God and how far his understanding extends and what should he do so that his inner weaknesses are removed and a living change takes place in his morals, actions, and designs. He is not eager to