Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 69
CHAPTER III 69 person having severed all bonds of their carnal self. It is then that their becomes a manifestation of divine glory, and God loves them. No mat- ter how hard they try to conceal themselves, God desires to make them known and such Signs are manifested through them that prove that God Almighty loves them. The world cannot compete with them in any matter, for God is with them in every single path and God's hand helps them in every field [of battle]. Thousands of Signs appear in their support and assistance, and everyone who does not relent in their enmity is ultimately destroyed with great ignominy, because, in the perspective of God, their enemy is His enemy. God is Most Forbearing and works without haste; however, everyone who does not relent in their enmity and is bent upon inten- tional malice, God attacks him for his extermination, just like a lioness (when someone intends to harm her cub) attacks him with fury and ferocity and does not give up until she tears him into pieces. It is truly in times of such trials that God's beloveds and friends are recognized. When someone intends to cause them grief and insists on this torment, and does not relent, then God strikes him like lightning and engulfs him in His wrath like a raging storm, and very swiftly He shows that He is with him. Just as you observe that there cannot be any ambiguity between the light of the sun and the light of a glow-worm; similarly, there cannot possibly exist any ambiguity with anyone else in regard to the light that is given to them, and the Signs that are manifested for them, and the spiritual blessings that are bestowed upon them. The like of their characteristics is not found in anyone else. God descends upon them and the throne of God permeates their heart, and they are transformed into something different which the world cannot fathom. As for the question 'Why does God develop such a bond with them?, the reply is that God has fashioned human nature such that it is like a receptacle that cannot remain empty of some form of love, and it is impossible to have a vacuum, meaning ‘emptiness', in it. Thus, when a heart becomes such that it becomes totally empty of the love of the