The Supreme Plan for the Universal Regeneration of Islam — Page 12
[ 12 ] Deep Points of Wisdom Given by the Saints of the Ummah This is a picture of believers in the lower spiritual sate. And from amongst them, those possessing higher strata emerge and will continue to emerge, who are endowed by Allah with the spiritual faculties of Mary. Such beings will continue to give birth to new beings gifted with higher spiritual powers. Aside from the Promised Messiah as , there have been innumerable saints and holy personages in the ummah; endowed with the blessings of Divine inspirations, clear visions and true revelations; who realised this subtle point. It was, in fact, in those people who had established a personal relationship with Allah. One of whom was Ha d rat Syed ‘Abdul Q a dir J i l a n i rta who writes in the twenty-sixth of his Essays: Remove not thy outer garment and thy veil from thy face. Now both of these items form part of a woman’s garment. Then how is it that Hadrat Syed ‘Abdul Q a dir J i l a n i rta is asking his addressee not to take off his outer garment and his veil? Commenting on these lines, Hadrat Sheikh ‘Abdul H aque Mu h addath of Delhi writes: The use of the terms burqa‘ [outer-garment] and qan a ‘ [veil] which form parts of the garments of a woman signifies that until the sage achieves perfection, a man figuratively remains like a woman and his claim to manhood does not hold