Thirty-Second Window

Thirty-Second Window

It is He Who has sent His Messenger with Guidance and the Religion of Truth to make it prevail over all religion, and God is sufficient as witness.(48:28) ∗ Say: O men! I am sent unto you all as the Messenger of God, to Whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth, there is no God but He; it is He Who gives life and death.(7:158)

This is the Window of the Prophet Muhammad (Upon whom be blessings and peace), the Sun of the skies of messengership, indeed, the Sun of Suns. How luminous and evident is this truly brilliant, wide, light-giving window has been proved in the Thirty-First Word, the Treatise on the Ascension, in the Nineteenth Word, the Treatise on Muhammad’s (Upon whom be blessings and peace) prophethood, and in the Nineteen Signs of the Nineteenth Letter. We shall therefore think of those two Words and that Letter and its Nineteenth Sign, and refer the word to them. For now we just say this:

Muhammad (Upon whom be blessings and peace), the living, articulate proof of divine unity, demonstrated and proclaimed divine unity throughout his life with the two wings of messengership and sainthood, that is, with a strength that comprised the consensus of all the prophets who had preceded him and the unanimity of the saints and purified scholars who came after him. He opened up a window onto knowledge of God as broad and brilliant and luminous as the World of Islam. Millions of purified and veracious scholars such Imam al-Ghazali, Imam Rabbani, Muhyiddin al-‘Arabi, and ‘Abd al-Qadir Geylani look through that Window, and show it also to others. Is there any veil that can obscure such a Window? Can the person who accusingly does not look through this Window be said to possess reason? Come on, you say!