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is near'. These are the people who as if they see God face to face. As for others, they have a curtain in between them and it is as if a wall is there in front of them. How can these two people be alike? One of them has no curtain before him; God the Almighty has given him eyes and He has also given him insight-the insight which guides him in all his words and deeds; he is not like the sightless who goes about stumbling here and there. It is as if God descends on his heart and at every step of his, He guides him. The darkness of the Satan dare not approach him, rather, the darkness is burnt to ashes and everything becomes visible to him with all the possible clarity. Whatever he says, it is all based on spiritual experience and he expounds the secrets of the Unseen. Whatever inter- pretation of a particular Hadees he gives, that and that alone is correct, for, he can hear those words direct from the Holy· Prophet, Sallallaho alaihi wa sallam, and thus, that Hadees takes the form of his own narration, whereas others have to lean on narrations of no less than three hundred and three years. How can these two be compared favourably. All that the Wali-ullah possesses is a treasure ofthe com- prehension of God, pure and enlightened. But he who opposes him and rejects all that he says-it is as if he has decided that he will oppose the Wali-ullah in everything that he will say- gets the bricks of his wall of God-realisation falling down. When one person is showing the right path and the other is rejecting all that he says, the result will be that the latter will be rejecting the total sum of beliefs mentioned in the Holy Quran and ultimately he will have lost faith in the very existence of God. That is, he will lose his faith. (Malfoozat Voi. I, p. 332) 32