The Essence of Islam – Volume I — Page 198
198 Essence of Islam-1 of God which had disappeared from the world; he loved God in the extreme and his soul melted out of sympathy for mankind. Therefore, God, Who knew the secret of his heart, exalted him above all the Prophets and all the first ones and the last ones and bestowed upon him in his life- time all that he desired. He is the fountainhead of every grace and a person who claims any superiority without acknowledging his grace is not a man but is the spawn of Satan, because the Holy Prophet has been bestowed the key to every exaltation and he has been given the treasury of every understand- ing. He who does not receive through him is deprived forever. I am nothing and possess nothing. I would be most ungrateful if I were not to confess that I have learnt of the true Unity of God through this Prophet. The rec- ognition of the Living God we have achieved through this perfect Prophet and through his light. The honour of converse with God, through which we behold His coun- tenance, has been bestowed upon me through this great Prophet. The ray of this sun of guidance falls like sun- shine upon me and I continue illumined only so long as I am adjusted towards it. [Haqiqat-ul-Waļī, Rūķānī Khazā'in, Vol. 22, pp. 118-119] O all ye who dwell upon the earth, and O all human souls that are in the east or in the west, I announce to you em- phatically that the true reality in the earth is Islām alone, and the True God is the God Who is described in the Qur'an, and the Prophet who has everlasting spiritual life and who is seated on the throne of glory and holiness, is Muhammad, the chosen one [peace and blessings of Allāh be on him]. The proof of his spiritual life and holy maj- esty is that by following him and loving him we become