Allah The Exalted — Page 132
132 Allah the Exalted The second attribute which has been manifested is His Rahmāniyyat whereby He has provided numberless boun- ties for man without any action having preceded from man. This attribute also discloses His hidden Being. The third attribute is His Rahīmiyyat. That means, that at first He bestows upon righteous people by virtue of His Rahmaniyyat the capacity for righteous action and then, as demanded by His Rahīmiyyat, He enables them to perform righteous actions and thus safeguards them against calamities. This attribute also discloses His hid- den Being. The fourth attribute is Mālik-i-Yaum-id-Din. This also discloses His hidden Being as by virtue of it He rewards the righteous and chastises the wicked. These four attrib- utes bear aloft His 'Arsh. That is to say, His hidden Being is recognized in this world through these attributes. This recognition will be doubled in the hereafter, that is to say, eight angels, instead of four, will bear aloft the 'Arsh. [Chashma-e-Ma'rifat, Rūķānī Khazā'in, Vol. 23, pp. 278-279] The Unity of God is a light which illumines the heart after the so-called outer and inner deities are totally ne- gated, and it courses through every particle of man's being. It cannot be acquired by anyone on his own, but only through God and His Messenger. Man's function is that he should impose a death upon his ego and should discard the satanic vanity that he is a learned person. He should deem himself ignorant and should be occupied with supplication. Then the light of Unity would descend upon him from God and would bestow new life upon him. [Haqiqat-ul-Wahī, Rūķānī Khazā'in, Vol. 22, p. 148]