The Essence of Islam – Volume IV — Page 276
276. Essence of Islam-IV in their difficulties when no human being can render them any help and His hosts descend in their support. . How grateful should we be that our God is Beneficent and Powerful! Will you then desert such a Dear One?. Will you transgress His limits for the sake of your unholy selves? It is better for us to die seeking His pleasure than to continue living impure lives. [Ayyam-uş-Şulḥ, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 14, pp. 341-342]. O my friends! O my dear people! O ye the flourishing branches of the tree of my being, who enjoy the mercy of God Almighty for having entered into the covenant of Bai'at with me, and are devoting your lives, your comfort and your properties to this cause!. Though I am aware that you will deem it your good fortune to do whatever I say to the best of your abilities, I do not desire to lay down anything by myself as an obligation upon you, so that your service should not be the result of my directive, but should proceed out of your own free will. Who is my friend and who is dear to me? Who is it that recognizes me? Only he who believes that I am one commissioned by God and accepts me as such people ought to be accepted. The world cannot accept me because I am not of the world, but those whose nature has been invested with a portion of the other world accept me and will continue to accept me. He who turns away from me turns away from Him Who has sent me, and he who establishes a relationship with me, establishes a relationship with Him from Whom I have come. I hold a lamp in my hand. He who comes to me will