Hazrat Mir Muhammad Ismail (ra) — Page 31
31 He was committed to drawing people away from th ose false notions of Sufism which had found their way into Muslim thinking, and leading them towards the true ways of Islamic Mysticism, which had been revived by the Promised Mess iah as - the true Taṣawwuf. A Mystic or “ Ṣūfī ” is generally understood as someone who believes and pursues the spiritual perception of such truths and realities that are beyond the reach of human intellect. The P romised Messiah as writes in his famous treat ise Ḥaqīqatul - Waḥī : "God, who is Bene vol ent and Merciful, and who has invested human nature with the hunger and thirst for His perfect cognition, has also endowed human nature with two types of faculties for the purpose of arriving at that perfect cog nition. The first are the rational faculties, the source of which is the brain. The second are the spiritual faculties, the source of which is the heart. The spiritual faculties reach the reality of that which cannot be discovered completely through the ra tional faculties. " - [ Ḥaqīqatul - Waḥī , p. 6 , Rū h ānī Khazā’in Vol. 22, p. 8. The P hilosophy of Divine R evelation p. 12. ] Hence, with reference to the above words of the Promised Messiah as , a Ṣūfī would , in more simple terms, be someone who goes beyond exercising his intellectual pow ers in trying to get to know God, and puts to use his spiritual faculties, in his search for the absolute truth. Ḥaḍrat Mir Muhammad Ismail ra , most certainly belonged