The Will — Page 12
T HE W IL L—AL-WA T HE W IL L—AL-WA S S IY YAT IY YAT 12 my Jam a ‘at that those who believe and their belief is not adulter- ated with worldly considerations and is free from hypocrisy and cowardice and is not found wanting at any stage of obedience, such people are the favourites of God. And God says that indeed these are the ones whose station is that of Truth. Listen, O you who can!! What is it that God desires from you? All He desires is only that you become solely His and do not associate any partners with Him, neither in the heavens nor on the earth. Our God is that God Who is alive even now as He was alive before. He speaks even now as He used to speak before. And even now He hears as He heard before. It is a false notion that in these times He only hears but does not speak. On the contrary, He hears and also speaks. All His Attributes are eternal and ever- lasting. None of His Attributes is in abeyance, nor will it ever be. He alone is the One without any associate; He has no son, nor has He any wife. He alone is Peerless and there is no one like Him. And He is the One Who is unique in that none of His Attributes are exclusively possessed by anyone beside Him. He has no equal. He does not share His attributes with anyone. None of His pow- ers is less than perfect. He is near, yet far and He is far, yet near. He can reveal Himself to Ahl-e-Kashf. 1 He has no body, nor any shape. He is above all, but it cannot be said that there is anything 1. Kashf is a unique spiritual visual experience which one has in a state of wakefulness. Ahl-e-Kashf are those who experience Kashf. The state- ment ‘can reveal Himself to…’ is not meant to be taken literally, nor is it meant to be taken figuratively. There are different ways in which God manifests Himself to Ahl-e-Kashf. Apart from them no one can conceive of the nature of how and in what manner He reveals Himself to Ahl-e- Kashf i. e. Prophets as and other men of God. [Publisher]