Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 137
POSTSCRIPT RESPONSE TO SOME CRITICS' OBJECTIONS 137 It is Our law indeed for those who strive after Us and seek Us with the utmost effort, that We do show them Our way. So the Prophets are first and foremost in offering sacrifices in the cause of Allah. Everyone strives for himself, but Prophets, peace be upon them, strive for others. People sleep, yet they stay awake for them; people laugh, yet they weep for them. They willingly bear every hardship for the deliverance of mankind. They do all this so that God Almighty may manifest Himself so that it should be proved to peo- ple that God exists, and His existence and His Tauḥid may be clearly perceived by the eager hearts so that they might attain salvation. Thus, they die in their sympathy for their mortal enemies. And when their agony reaches its peak and heaven is filled with their tormented supplications (which are for the sake of the deliverance of mankind), then God Almighty exhibits the splendour of His countenance and manifests His Existence and His Tauḥīd to mankind through mighty Signs. Thus, there is no doubt that the treasure of Tauḥīd and god- liness is attained by the world only from the mantle of the Prophet; without him, it can never be attained. The highest example in this regard was set by our Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, who uplifted a people out of the filth in which they were steeped and transported them to a gar- den. He served spiritual foods and sweet drinks par excellence to those who were languishing on the verge of death out of spiritual hunger and thirst. He transformed them from savages into human beings, and then from ordinary human beings to civilized people, and then from civi- lized human beings into perfect human beings, and exhibited so many Signs for them, that he manifested God to them, and brought about such a transformation in them that they began to shake hands with angels. None of the other Prophets were able to demonstrate such an effect in their ummah, for their companions remained imperfect. Thus, I always wonder what a sublime Prophet this Arabian Prophet is, whose name is Muḥammad (thousands upon thousands of blessings and peace be upon him). One cannot fathom the limit