One in All – All in One
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My dear cazīz President, Fatḥ `Alī Ḥabīb. May the Lord of honor grant you success and eminence in both worlds! Āmīn, O Lord of the worlds!
There is a meaningful allusion to a remarkable and magnificent opening of spirituality and knowledge in your blessed name (Fatḥ `Alī). Praise be to Allāh! Your soul is certainly an angel of victory and succor for me. This Divine favor makes it incumbent upon me to repeatedly prostrate in gratitude.
How greatly blessed are we all that the sapling which you had planted has started to thrive well and the seeds of flowers which were sowed, by the grace of God, have become a beautiful world of color and fragrance. This is an example of those cazīzān who are [now] in full vigor as a result of your fundamental and practical efforts and great sacrifices. Each of them is an orchard of the fruit of knowledge as well as a flower-bed of the flowers of wisdom. Not only this, but due to your sagacity and continual efforts you have also created several prudent patrons and discerning office-bearers. For all these great favors I am grateful and indebted to you.
You are the highly respected President of K̲h̲ānah-yi Ḥikmat and its senior patron. Therefore, entire success of this reputed organization rebounds to your credit. Whatever may be the good service of an organization, the central position is held by its President and particularly when you are its patron as well. The patron of every successful organization is like its affectionate and kind father and you have in fact rendered services and sacrifices like a great father and many dear office-bearers and devoted members are following your footsteps.
I am certain that God, the Prophet(ṣ), and the Imām of the time are very pleased with you and Guls̲h̲akar, your angel-like wife. The
bright proof of this is that the service which is granted to you is unique because it is the service of knowledge and it is boundless and ever-reaching and can encompass space and time.
A question arises here: Why does Islam command to serve others? The true answer is that to serve others means to serve oneself because in paradise after attaining the rank of unity (martabah-yi waḥdat) it becomes clear that in this world our soul was the compendium of all people and all people were particles of our soul. The same concept is that of the holy Qur'ān in verse (2:213): "All people were one community" (that is, they were spiritual particles of one person). A clear example in the Qur'an is that of Ḥaz̤rat-i Ibrāhīm (16:120): "Indeed Ibrāhīm (in his spiritual particles) was a community obedient to God."
Similarly, all the people of the world had become one in the holy personality of the Prophet Muḥammad(ṣ), as God says in verse (110:2): "And when you see the people entering the Religion of God in groups." The word nās or people here means the souls of the people, and 'the religion of God' is the holy Prophet(ṣ). This means that all the people of the world had unconsciously entered the blessed personality of Prophet Muḥammad(ṣ), in the form of particles. This is referred to as "All in One, One in All."
Your well-wisher, 13th May, 1984
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