Mahzarnama (The Memorandum) — Page 37
Mahzarnama 37 the agency of the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa. " [Aa’eenah Kamaalaat-e-Islam, Roohaani Khazaa’in vol. 5, pp. 223-224]. "After the spiritual body is perfected, a fiery flash of the personal love of God quickens one's heart and endows it with a permanent entity which, only after it attains full maturity, brings the "spiritual beauty" into full relief. But this spiritual beauty, which may be named Beauty of Conduct, is so potent in its variety of magnetism that it far excels the Beauty of Countenance. Because the Beauty of Countenance would be responsible for the ephemeral love of one or two individuals, and it will soon fade away. Its attraction will be quite feeble. But the variety of magnetism of the spiritual beauty which has been termed as Beauty of Conduct, is so tenacious and powerful that it pulls the whole world, as it were, to itself and attracts every particle of the heavens and the earth to itself. This is really the philosophy behind the acceptance of prayer: when such a person of spiritual beauty—in whom the spirit of God's love has permeated—when he prays for something impossible, or an extremely difficult matter, and prays with persistent emphasis, then due to God's decree and permission every particle of this world is attracted toward the innate spiritual beauty that he possesses. So a conjunction of such factors comes about as are necessary for his success. Personal experience as well as the Holy Book of Allah provides ample proof that every particle of this world falls in love with such a person and his prayers draw these particles towards him in much the same manner as a magnet attracts iron. That is why unusual happenings come about as a result of this kind of magnetism which find no mention in any book of physics or philosophy, and such attraction is naturally embodied. Ever since God, the Ultimate Creator, has fashioned the material world with particles, He has embodied every particle with such attraction that every particle is truly in love with Spiritual Beauty; so also is every pious soul, because that Beauty is the seat of God's manifestation. It was the same Beauty for which He commanded: