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255 Malfuzat – Volume IV of God Almighty. However, the real truth is that you have only approached the fountain which God Almighty has created at this time for everlasting life. You have yet to drink. Now, seek ability through the grace and blessings of God Almighty so that He may satiate you. Nothing can happen without the grace and blessings of God. I know for certain that anyone who drinks from this fountain will not perish. For this water bestows life and saves one from destruction; it protects one from the onslaughts of Satan. How should one satiate themselves by this fountain? It is by re-establishing and truly fulfilling the two classes of rights which God Almighty has placed upon you. One of them is the right due to God and secondly, the right due to God’s creation. The Unity of God Consider your God to be One and without partner, just as you testify in the dec - laration: ُہللُ َا َ � َاْل ِ َا َ ٗہ ٰ َل ِ َا ٓ َ � َاْل َْاَْن ُ ِد َ ُھ ْ َش َاَ Meaning, I bear witness that there is no beloved, no desire, no master other than Allah. This is such a beautiful phrase that if it had been taught to the Jews and Christians or other idol worshippers who associate partners with God—and if they understood it—surely, they would never perish or suffer ruin. It is due to their being deprived from this one sentence that they were struck with destruc - tion and misfortune; their soul was smitten with leprosy, as it were, after which it perished. 1 In this context, God Almighty states: 2 ٌ ْد َ ُح َ ا ًا ْو ُ ِف ُـ ْك َٗٗه ْل ْ ُن َُكُ ُي ْ ُم َ ْل ََْدْ َو ْل ُْوْ ُي ْ ُم َ ْل َِْدَْو ُل َ ُي ْ ُم َ ْل ُ ْد ََمَ ْلَص ُ ا ُهلل َ ا ٌ ْد َ ُح َ ا ُ ُهلل َ ا ْو ُقُْلْ ُھُ In other words, say, He is God, the One. The Arabic huwa (He) refers to God. He is the One. He is the Independent. He neither requires food, nor drink. He is not bound by time, nor space. He is neither anyone’s father, nor son, and there is none like unto Him. He is unchangeable. This is a small chapter of the Holy Quran which can fit in just one line, but see how effectively and wonderfully Allah the Exalted is shown to be free from the defect of every form of association with others. The aforementioned words expound that God Almighty is pure from every 1 Al-Hakam , vol. 6, no. 18, dated 17 May 1902, pp. 5-6 2 al-Ikhlas , 112:2-5 p. 520