The Mirror of the Excellences of Islam — Page 176
PREFACE-FOOTNOTE 175 their opinion, the dreams must have ceased altogether during those periods as well. AUTHOR'S MARGIN NOTE Batālawi and Shaikh Dehlawi have committed great dis- respect towards the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, by proposing that the Holy Spirit totally left the Holy Prophetsas at times but have not made such a sugges- tion about Jesus. This is an example of the level of their knowledge and cognition. Now, O just people! Think about it. Has the disrespect shown to the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, by these two shaikhs reached an extreme or not? They believe that that Sun of Truthfulness [the Holy Prophet Muhammadsas], no instinct of whose heart was without the impulse of wahy, is believed by them-God forbid to have remained in darkness for long periods without any light. My humble self knows from my own personal experience that the holiness of the Holy Spirit operates at all the times on every occasion and every moment without cessation in all the faculties of the recipi- ent of revelation; and without the influence of the holiness of the Holy Spirit, he cannot safeguard himself against impurities for even a moment. And he is also the source of perpetual lights, perpetual steadfast- ness, perpetual love, perpetual sinlessness, and perpetual blessings in that the Holy Spirit is with them always and every moment. Then, how can it be imagined with regard to the Imāmul-Ma'șūmīn [Leader of the Sinless], Imāmul-Mutabārikīn [Leader of the Blessed], and Sayyidul- Muqarrabin [Chief of all the Elects] that God forbid he was left devoid of these blessings, purities, and lights at any time. How sad that these people believe regarding Jesus that the Holy Spirit did not sepa- rate himself from him for even a single moment for thirty-three years; but they deny such a distinction here [to the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him]. ONE OF THE OTHER OBJECTIONS IS why, in Sūrah at-Tariq, did God Almighty take the oath of a thing other than Himself when He says Himself that oaths must not be AUTHOR'S MARGIN NOTE Answer to the objection that God Almighty swore in the name of those beside Himself in the oaths in the Holy Quran.