The Essence of Islam – Volume III — Page 90
90. Essence of Islam-III palace of purity and holiness should be erected in the heart which should become the habitation of the Lord of. Honour. Only then could it be said that a person has restored those trusts that the Bountiful has committed to him, and has fulfilled the purpose of the verse: وَالَّذِينَ هُمْ لا مَنتِهِمْ وَ عَهْدِهِمْ رَاعُونَ ٥. At this stage a framework is prepared and the spirit of. Divine manifestation, which means the personal love of the Divine, enters into the believer together with the. Holy Spirit and bestows a new life and a new power upon him. All this happens under the influence of the spirit which, at this stage, establishes a relationship with the believer but does not yet take up its abode in his heart. . This is followed by the sixth spiritual stage in which the personal love of the believer reaches its climax and draws to itself the personal love of Allah the Exalted. . Thereupon the personal love of God Almighty enters into the believer and envelops him, in consequence of which he is granted a new and extraordinary power. That power generates such life in his faith as a soul creates in the lifeless body. All faculties are illumined by it, and the believer is so inspired by the Holy Spirit, that he is given access to matters and to knowledge that are above normal human conception. At this stage the believer, having traversed all stages of the progress of faith, is designated in heaven as the vicegerent of God, on account of the excellences with which he is invested and which partake of. Divine qualities. . When a person stands before a mirror, all his features are 79. Ibid.