Lord, so that he starts receiving God’s
blessings on a spiritual level. It is thus that
his heart and mind will become illuminated
by God’s light. His entire being will be
bathed in the shower of God’s blessings.
The aim of calling man to God is that, while
still living in the world, he may become an
inhabitant of the hereafter. He will thus
discover God’s greatness in the greatness of
the world. He will start experiencing
heavenly blessings in worldly comforts,
while worldly hardships will remind him of
the torment of hell fire.
He will be able to see glimpses of the
realities of the hereafter in the beautiful
scenes of the world of nature. This is the
true aim of
dawah
, and the preparation of
such individuals is the true measure of the
da’i’s
success. It is said in the Quran that
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