Faculties for Seeing God Can Be Developed in This Very World — Essence of Islam Vol. 2

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In this discourse from Essence of Islam (Volume 2), Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (AS), the Promised Messiah and Mahdi, expounds upon Faculties for Seeing God Can Be Developed in This Very World, presenting profound spiritual insights and scriptural verities.

Book Series: Essence of Islam (Volume 2)
Author: Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian (AS)
Section: Part 7: Salvation
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of kingly power. He discloses to him prophecies which are a sign of his honour and of the disgrace of his enemies, which indicate his victory and the defeat of his enemies. In this way, through His words and His works, manifests His existence to him. Then that servant being purified of all sin arrives at the perfection for which he has been created.
[Chashma-e-Ma‘rifat, Ruhani Khaza’in, vol. 23, pp. 418-421]
[Essence of Islam, Vol. 2, p. 269]

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That is, he who is blind in this world will be blind in the hereafter also. This means that a person takes with him from this world the faculties for seeing God and the means of eternal salvation. God has repeatedly indicated that the means of man’s attaining salvation is eternal as God Himself is Eternal. It is not that after a time He recalled that if men cannot attain salvation by any other means, he should bestow salvation on them by killing Himself. A person can be described as having attained salvation when all his passions are consumed and God’s will becomes his will and he becomes so devoted to God out of love that nothing remains his and everything becomes God’s. All his words and deeds and movements and designs should be for God and he should perceive in his heart that all his delights are now in God and that a moment’s separation
[Chashma-e-Ma‘rifat, Ruhani Khaza’in, vol. 23, pp. 416-417]
[Essence of Islam, Vol. 2, p. 269]

Salvation is not attained through one’s effort, but through the grace of God Almighty. The law that God Almighty has appointed for acquiring this grace is never falsified. That law is: 95 96

Salvation is not something whose blessings and fruits will be known to man only after his death. It is something the effects of which are manifested in this very world and a person who has attained salvation is bestowed a heavenly life in this world. The followers of other religions are altogether deprived of this. If it is said that the Muslims are also in the same condition, the answer is that they are deprived because they do not follow the Book. A person who possesses a medicine but does not use it and is careless will derive no benefit from it. That is the case of the Muslims that they have a Holy Book like the Qur’an but they do not follow it. Those who turn away from the Word of God Almighty are deprived of lights and blessings. Turning away is of two kinds; one, in action and the other in doctrine. A person cannot partake of lights and blessings unless he acts as God Almighty has commanded: 97
[Malfuzat, vol. IV, pp. 206-207]
[Essence of Islam, Vol. 2, p. 270]

95 ‘If you love Allah then follow me, Allah will then love you.’—Ale-‘Imran, 3:32 [Publisher] 96 ‘He who seeks a faith other than Islam, it will not be accepted from him.’—Al-e-‘Imran, 3:86 [Publisher]
[Essence of Islam, Vol. 2]
[Essence of Islam, Vol. 2, p. 271]

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