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25 with God’s favours and bounties. The true paradise is God, to whom no form of anxiety or worry can be attributed. This is why the greatest of all bounties in paradise is none other than: 1 ُ رِضْوَانٌ مِّنَ اهللِ اَكْبَر The pleasure of Allah is the greatest of all. Man, being human, is plagued by some grief or unease. However, the more and more one advances in nearness to God, one continues to become imbued in: ِ ق ِ اہلل َ تَخَلَّقُوْا بِاَخْل Develop within yourselves the attributes of Allah. The more this occurs, the more one grows in comfort and tranquillity. The degree to which one basks in divine nearness is the degree to which one partakes of the bounties of God; this is the meaning of elevation (rafa). Perfect salvation is attained when one ascends towards God. One who is not raised in this manner falls true to the following: 2 ِ الْاَرْض ی اَخْلَدَ اِلَ He inclined to the earth. Hence, the exaltation of the Messiah as is an indication towards his being amongst those blessed with salvation; these are spiritual ranks and every eye cannot dis- cern the manner in which a human being is spiritually raised to the heavens. ” 7—The Meaning of Nuzul The Promised Messiah as said: “The word nuzul (to descend) is used to describe the expression of honour and glory. As such, the nature of my descent possesses the very same grandeur as well. So, naturally, the ‘minaret’ that was to herald my ‘descent’ was always meant to be. 3 The word nuzul does not refer only to one 1 at-Tawbah, 9:72 2 al-A’raf , 7:177 3 It is mentioned repeatedly in the Hadith of the Holy Prophet sa that the Messiah to come would appear as the Man of the Minaret. This signified that in his age, the truth of Islam will reach the greatest of heights in the likeness of a towering minaret, and that the religion of Islam will prevail over all religions just as the voice of he who makes the call to Prayer, standing atop of a tall minaret, domi- nates all other voices. So it was but destined that the same would happen in the time of the Messiah. —Khutbah Ilhamiyyah, Ruhani Khaza’in, vol. 16, p. 18. [Publisher] p. 22