The Essence of Islam – Volume IV — Page 42
42 Essence of Islam-IV thus and not so and so. He has sent me with bright signs which are in excess of ten thousand. [Kashti-e-Nūḥ, Rūņānī Khazā'in, vol. 19, p. 14] If it is asked, what is the characteristic and spiritual power in which Jesus son of Maryas and I resemble each other, the answer is that it is an overall charac- teristic with which our spiritual capacities have been specially invested, one aspect of which proceeds downwards and the other climbs upwards. The char- acteristic proceeding downward means the deep and burning sympathy for God's creatures which, having established a strong relationship between a caller towards God and his eager disciples, spreads the il- luminating power inherent in the holy being of the caller towards God, throughout his living branches. By the upward proceeding characteristic is meant that higher quality of love that is compounded with firm faith and which, taking its birth by Divine de- sign in the heart of the servant, draws the love of God Almighty towards itself. By the combination of these two loves which are, in a sense, related to each other like male and female-a strong relation- ship is established between the Creator and His creatures, and the bright fire of Divine love captures the fuel-like love of the creature, giving rise to a the third characteristic-the Holy Spirit. [Taudīh-e-Marām, Rūķānī Khazā'in, vol 3, pp. 61-62] There is no God beside the One God, but there is an- other Messiah, who is now speaking to you. God's jealousy brooks no second, but man's second is