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becomes destined for a promotion as a result of individual or collective
struggle, and as result of individual or collective laziness the nation
declines instead of progressing. These are the two sides of development. One
form of faith is that a nation attains worldly honour, worldly dignity, and
worldly splendour, and the other form of development indicates that the nation
that can approach the unseen world while existing in the apparent world achieves
real development and splendour.
KHWAJA SHAMS-UD-DEEN AZEEMI
What is the universe? It is a point, and this point is a
divine light, and the divine light is itself a light.
Every point is the imprint of luminescence (Tajalli). When
this imprint transforms itself into the divine light then it becomes Aura
(Jism-e-Misali). The display of the Aura is the physical body.
The physical body is built up as a structure of bones, flesh,
and muscle. The skin is a kind of plaster and color on this building. The life
of the human being who is made up of veins, arteries, nerves, bones, and flesh,
is nothing except senses.
