Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 71
CHAPTER III 71 conflict. In truth, no one can recognize the people of God except that Omnipotent God, who sees the hearts. Thus, when He sees the heart that has truly come to Him, He works wonders for him and stands up for his support in every pathway. He displays such powers in his favour that are unknown to the world, and He becomes more jealous for his honour than any kinsman can be for his own kin. He gives him knowledge out of His own knowledge and grants him wisdom out of His own wisdom, and causes him to become so engrossed in Him that his relationships with all others are severed. Such people attain a new birth by dying in the love of God, and, having become annihilated, they become heirs to a new life. God keeps them hidden from the eyes of others just as He Himself is Hidden. Yet, notwithstanding, He casts the radiance of His countenance to fall upon their faces and He rains down His light upon their foreheads due to which they cannot remain hidden. They do not retreat when visited by any tribulation; rather, they forge ahead; and their present day is greater than their previous day in the love and cognizance [of God], and their bond of love is on the increase every single moment, and their prayers are not rejected or wasted on account of their intensity of love, trust, and righteousness. Since they become lost in seeking the pleasure of God and abandon their own pleasure; therefore, God, too, seeks to please them. They are hidden beyond hidden and the world cannot recognize them for they have moved far away from the world. Those who make careless opinions about their status are doomed. Neither friend nor foe can truly fathom their [true] reality, for they are concealed within the mantle of Oneness of God. Who knows their entire reality, but the very One in whose passion of love they are intoxicated! They are a group that is not God, but are not separated from God even for a moment. They are the people who fear God more than all others, who are loyal to God more than all others, who demonstrate sincerity and perseverance in the path of God more than all others,