He who erreth cannot injure you if you are rightly guided (Qur’an 5...

He who erreth cannot injure you if you are rightly guided (Qur’an 5:105) and "Thou, verily, O man, art working towards thy Lord a work which thou wilt meet (in His presence)" (Qur’an 84: 6), they understand that by the nature of creation itself they are bound within the framework of their own souls, and other than the way of their souls there is no road open to them to reach God. Whatever they see or find in the expansiveness of the world they see and find in themselves.

It is here that man understands that in fact he is cut off from all places and things and other than he himself and his God there is no one else. Even if such a person is in the midst of a hundred thousand people he is alone, and if others see him in the midst of a crowd, he sees himself in a spiritual retreat far away from everyone else, no one being with him but God.

It is then that he looks at himself and sees all things within himself, and he understands that he himself is also only a mirror in which the unique Beauty of God is manifested, and that he has nothing but God. When he has remembered God in this fashion and has cleansed his heart and emptied it of vanity and frivolity, the remembrance of God becomes firmly fixed within his soul and he enters among the ranks of the people of certainty ( al-yaqin ) and God's promise.

"And serve thy Lord till the inevitable (al-yaqin) cometh unto thee" (Qur’an 15: 99) is fulfilled. The doors of the kingdom of the heavens and the earth open to him and he sees that all things are possessed absolutely by God. "Thus did We show Abraham the kingdom of the heavens and the earth that he might be of those possessing certainty." (Qur’an 6: 75). The person endowed with such a vision will behold the three stages of Divine Unity. First the Unity of God in His Acts will be revealed to him.

He will see with certainty that it is God who directs the Universe and all that it contains, and that the innumerable causes and agents which are at work in the world, whether theirs be the activity of free will or of necessity, are all painted upon the canvass of creation by His all-powerful Hand. Cause and effect and the relationship between the two-each is brought into being and executed by the One. "And unto Allah belongeth the Sovereignty of the heavens and the earth." (Qur’an 45: 27).