The Way of Salvation

Every person shows from his earthly heritage a distinct nature. Thanks to resonance, we shall consider the idealist. He lives in the world for his ideals; a man of principles, intelligent, modest, moderate in everything, patient; and a man with refined manners, dreamy by nature, or a deep thinker; a man of dignity who guards his reputation as one would take care of a thin glass. 

His contact with the earth is like that of a bird who builds its nest upon a tree in the air, descends to the earth to pick up grain when hungry, and then flies off. He dwells on the earth because he is born on the earth, but in reality, he lives in his thoughts. The earth and all that belongs to the earth is his need, not his want. 

The idealist's belief is in his scripture and savior. He believes because it is written in the scripture, or taught by the savior. His belief, of course, will not change with the weather, but still, it may waver, if by any means reason was awakened in his soul. At least it would be dimmed just as the light of a candle would become dimmed by the rising sun. When the sun of intelligence rises, it would break through and scatter the clouds of emotion and devotion made by this belief. 

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 The faith which supercedes shall now be established on conviction; not just reason, but every part of his being shall be convinced and assured of the truth of things, and nothing on earth can change it. If a person were to say to him, 'Do not cross over this place, there is water here,' he will say, 'No, it is land. I can see for myself.' It is just like seeing with the eyes all that one believes. 

This belief is the belief of the seer whose knowledge is his eyewitness, and therefore his belief will last forever and ever. Of course, as a soul evolves from stage to stage, it must break the former belief in order to establish the latter.  The latter belief consists of the unfathomable truth of Yahuah's glory as it has been written in 1 Corinthians 2:9: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no heart has imagined, what God has prepared for those who love Him.” That is the final revelation that brings the seer to the shores of the ultimate truth.

Why is there so much suffering in life, when Yahuah is described as merciful? This fact can be understood, not merely by believing in Yahuah, but in knowing Him. In Isaiah 66:1, He said that Heaven is His throne, and the earth is the footstool of His feet. In Ephesians 4:4, the holy spirit expressly says, "there is one body and one Spirit."

So suppose your hands dropped a heavy weight upon your feet and hurt them, are your hands to be blamed? No, for they share the pain with the feet, and although the feet seem to have been hurt, yet the one that feels hurt is your absolute being. In reality that being feels hurt, and therefore the hand shares the hurt of the foot. So it is with Yahuah. Our very life is His, and He is not void of the feeling of joy or of pain which we feel. In reality, He feels what we imagine we feel, yet at the same time, His perfect Being keeps Him above all earthly joys and pains; and our imperfection limits us, so that we become subject to all joys and pains, however small they may be.

One might ask, 'Why tread the path of righteousness and piety; why spend your life in teaching and proclaiming the gospel?' It is natural. Every loving person who has been saved from sin has a desire to see others partake in the glory of Yahusha. On the other hand, it seems that some persons are quite happy in committing sin. But sin can never make one happy. Even where there is pleasure in it, for the time being, it would re-echo, and the re-echo of a false note is never pleasing to the musical ear for the wages of sin is death but the gift of Yahuah is eternal life in Yahusha [Romans 6:23].

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However, the whole of life's sins may be forgiven by divine mercy in one moment, just as a chemical solution may wash away the stains of years from the surface of a rock in a moment. But if a person has continued to commit sins, at every sin he has lost his belief in the judgment of Yahuah and in His power. Therefore he has sown the seed of disbelief in his heart and has reared this plant by his sins. That being so, how can he, in the end, develop sufficient faith in a moment to believe in divine mercy? The simplest thing becomes the most difficult for him because he shall instead feel condemned.

For this reason, the saints taught the natural men faith as the first lesson in salvation. Those are forgiven the sins of their whole life, who have always believed that any moment death might come and have safeguarded themselves against doing anything that does not meet with the pleasure of Yahuah, and whenever, owing to human imperfection, they have failed in doing right, they most earnestly have asked forgiveness.

References: Hazrat Inayat & Apostle Paul