Our God — Page 30
30 special Divine support in order to progress from ‘should be’ to ‘is’. In other words, the limited vision of reason stops at the ‘ought to be’ stage and cannot proceed further until granted special insight by God. When such insight is granted, this unveils the reality about the existence of God. Those who were unable to recognise God before are enabled to behold the brilliant countenance of the Creator. As man attains greater and greater nearness to God, his comprehension of God becomes sharper and this knowledge and cognizance go on improving. There is no limit to this nearness or end to this knowledge and cognizance, for God is an Infinite Being and the cognizance of an Infinite Being cannot be finite or limited. That is why—along with every common man— Hadrat Kh a tamur-Rusul [the Seal of the Messengers], peace and bless- ings of Allah be on him, who was Sarwar-e-K a ’in a t [the Leader of Mankind], offered the prayer: 1 ِّبَر ْيِنْدِز اًمْلِع Meaning that, ‘O my Lord, increase me in knowledge’. And yet he is the one whom God directed to say: َ َ فَخْر ال َ اَنَا سَیِّد ُ وَلَد ِ اٰدَم َ و Meaning that, I am the chief of all men but I take no pride in it. And about whom God said the following: 1. S u rah Ta H a, 20:115.