Malfuzat – Volume II — Page 128
128 Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad The Greatest Excellence of a Prophet Is Their Disclosing the Unseen In short, the actual point was that in the aforementioned prayer, a supplication has been made so that one may partake of the excellences of the Prophets. For the chief class from among those upon whom God has bestowed His blessings is that of the Prophets, peace be upon them all. Further, the greatest excellence of this group is that matters of the unseen—also referred to as prophecies—are revealed to them. It ought to be remembered that in this prayer, the supplicant does not actually pray to be given prophecies, but rather only seeks to attain that station at which he then makes prophecies. The station at which one makes prophecies requires the highest levels of nearness to God. For this is the station where a person becomes an embodiment of the following verse: 1 يَنْطِقُ عَنِ الْهَوٰى مَا He does not speak out of his own desire. This level is attained when a person reaches the station that is illustrated in the following verse: 2 فَتَدَلّٰى دَنَا He drew nearer to God; then he came down to mankind. Until a person discards the mantle of their human nature and cloaks themselves under the mantle of divinity, so as to become a reflection of the divine, how can they be conferred the rank just mentioned? This is the rank at which certain sufis, ignorant of the stages in the spiritual quest, arrived but stumbled, and then considered themselves to be God. This misunderstanding of theirs has resulted in the spread of a grave error, which has ruined many. The issue that I speak of is the concept of Unity of Being (wahdat-e-wujud). The people are unaware of the deeper reality of this concept. My purpose is only to tell you that until a person reaches the rank described in 3 يَنْطِقُ عَنِ الْهَوٰى مَا (He does not speak out of his own desire) , they cannot be granted the power of prophecy, and this rank is attained when a person attains nearness of the Divine. In order to attain the nearness of Allah, one must act upon the following: 1 an-Najm , 53:4 2 an-Najm , 53:9 3 an-Najm , 53:4