The Mirror of the Excellences of Islam — Page 93
92 Ā'ĪNA-E-KAMĀLĀT-E-ISLĀM―DĀFI‘UL-WASĀWIS It is now clear from these facts that all the travails and labours of this AUTHOR'S MARGIN NOTE The luminous and perfect shadow of the Holy Spirit arises with the meeting of two loves at the stage of liqā. journey are up to the stage of fanā. In advancing further, there is no involvement of human effort, labour, toiling, and striv- ing. Rather, the pure love for God, the Noble and Glorious, which develops in the stage of fană, is blessed automatically by a bright flame of God's love. This is designated as the stages of baqā and liqā. And when God's love descends upon the love of His servant, then, through the union of these two loves, a bright and perfect shadow of the Holy Spirit manifests in the human heart. At the stage of liqā, the light of this Holy Spirit is very bright and the miracles of Divine power that I have just mentioned proceed from such people for this very reason, because this light of the Holy Spirit attends upon them under all circumstances and at all times and dwells within them. AUTHOR'S MARGIN NOTE The reason why miracles and Signs of Divine power are manifested They never separate from that light under any condition, nor does that light ever depart from them. That light issues forth from them with every breath and falls upon everything due to their glance, and displays its brilliance to the people with their words. This very light is called the Holy Spirit. But this is not the real Holy Spirit. The real Holy Spirit is that which is in the heavens. This Holy Spirit is its reflection, which dwells permanently in pure bos- oms, hearts, and minds and does not leave them even for a moment. AUTHOR'S MARGIN NOTE Those people are false who hold the belief that the Holy Spirit departs sometimes from the Auliya' [Friends of Allah] and Prophets. The person who suggests that sometimes this Holy Spirit, with all its effects, departs from them, is altogether in the wrong and disparages the holy elect of God Almighty through his utterly misguided thinking. Granted, it is true that the real Holy Spirit remains at his station; however, his reflection, which is also metaphorically called the Holy