True
devotees are a sign of Living Faith. Love of God drives them to respect and act
upon Divine commands and prohibitions as they should be. For instance, they
offer regular prayers at specified times of the day; they recite the Holy
Qur’an at dawn. Moreover, they sincerely engage in remembrance of God all the
time. In the pure quest for the grand favour and blessings of Divine nearness,
they even wake up at night and pray as an extra offering of their own: in the long hours of the night prostrating before God and weeping in supplication, nurturing their souls even in a state of exhaustion. Like the
Holy Qur’an notes, Allah Himself indicates the standards of readiness and
rewards of sincerity:
‘O you who are
bearing a heavy responsibility, stand up in Prayer at night except a small
portion thereof—Half of it, or make it a little less than that, or make it a
little more than that—and recite the Qur’an slowly and thoughtfully.’ [73: 2-5].
‘O Ye who believe! Offer Tahajjud prayer in the latter part of the night. It may be that your Lord will raise you to a highly praised status.’ (17: 80)
True devotion to God, or Divine Love, has beneficial
consequences for the believer when God gazes at the heart of the sincere soul
with forgiveness, mercy, kindness and indulgence. A famous Hadith-e-Qudsi reads
as follows:
Hazrat
Abu Hurairah (ra) narrates that the Holy Prophet (sa) said: “Allah
the Almighty says … ‘My servant can be close to Me through the things that I
love and that I made obligatory upon him. By offering Nawafil, My servant gets
so close to Me that I start loving him. When I make him a friend of Mine, I
become the ears with which he hears, the eyes with which he sees, the hands
with which he holds and the feet with which he walks. Thus, I fulfil all that
he desires. If he begs of Me, I provide for him; if he seeks My protection, I
grant him protection. (Sahih al-Bukhari, Kitabul
Riqaq, Bab-ul-Tawazu)
Indeed, the pious men and women who are steeped in Divine
waters and absorb themselves in Divine remembrance and sublime invocations- the
special servants and friends of God; it is they who are blessed to partake in
the subtle mysteries of this universe, and special signs of Divine nearness
appear in and among their circle. Indeed, at the highest levels of this
mystical journey, the believer will become alone with the Alone, almost 'lose' himself in God. With such depths of Faith in a Divinely-imbued servant, the blessings of the Islamic Way will be demonstrated- it is as if
the heaven and the earth are renewed through his presence and work for the sake
of Allah (swt) as the new ‘Adam’, the ‘Khalifatullah’ of the era.
Today, Jamaat Ul Sahih Al Islam International with a
Divinely-appointed ‘Khalifatullah’ [who speaks with the help of ‘Roohul Qudus’
at the head of the Jamaat] strives for the creation of a new heaven and earth; in
its own humble and sincere way of pure devotion and submission to the Will and
Decision of Allah (swt), it is a stunning example of the kind of Divine
Manifestations that have had been witnessed through the centuries in different
lands, with the advent of prophets and messengers and saints of God who strove
to uphold the pristine truth about God through a correct appreciation of the eternal
teachings of Faith, Alhamdulillah, Summa
Alhamdulillah.
Reproduced Below is a mystical experience of special Divine
Nearness reported by none other than our Promised Messiah Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
(as) of Qadian [1835-1908] in the previous era- at a time when Allah (swt) raised
him as the commissioned one of the age to demonstrate the blessings and favours
of the living religion of Islam:
