The Essence of Islam – Volume IV — Page 256
256. Essence of Islam-IV fully on my teachings enters that house of mine, concerning which there is a promise in Divine revelation: إِنِّي أَحَافِظُ كُلَّ مَنْ فِي الدَّارِ. It means that I shall safeguard everyone who is within the walls of your house. This should not be taken to mean only such people as dwell in my house made of bricks. Rather it refers to all those who follow me completely and dwell in my spiritual house. To follow me, it is necessary for them to believe that they have a. Mighty, Self-Existing and All-Creating God, Whose attributes are eternal, everlasting and unchangeable. . He has no father and no son. He is much above being put upon the cross and being killed. He is such that despite being far, He is near; and despite being near,. He is far. Despite being One, His manifestations are diverse. For a man who brings about a change in himself, He becomes a new God and deals with him with a new manifestation. Thus, a person experiences a change in God according to the change in himself. . Yet no change takes place in God, for He is eternally. Unchangeable and Most Perfect, but when a person moves towards goodness, God manifests Himself to him in a new way. At the time of every improved condition that manifests itself in a person, God's manifestation of Power also reveals itself in an improved manner. He manifests His might in an extraordinary way only when an extraordinary change takes place in a person. This is at the root of all extraordinary happenings and miracles. This is the God our Jama'at has to believe in. Believe in Him and pre-